Collagen fibrils: Nanoscale ropes

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 70-75

  Bozec, Laurent ^a,c,d   Van Der Heijden, Gert ^b   Horton, Michael ^a,c  

^a Department of Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON CENTRE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d Rayne Building ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; NANOMATERIAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SUPERCOILING; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT;

EID: 33846012172     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.085704     Document Type: Article

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