Effect of age on collagen fibril diameter in rabbit patellar tendon repair

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 8-11

  Sklenka, Angela M ^a   Levy, Martin S ^b   Boivin, Gregory P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PATELLA TENDON; RABBIT; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TISSUE REPAIR;

AGING; ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PATELLA; RABBITS; TENDONS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33646484496     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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