The tensile properties of collagen fascicles harvested from regenerated and residual tissues in the patellar tendon after removal of the central third

Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 77-85

  Maeda, Eijiro ^a,d   Noguchi, Hitoshi ^b   Tohyama, Harukazu ^c   Yasuda, Kazunori ^c   Hayashi, Kozaburo ^a,e  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DENSO CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collagen fascicle; Mechanical properties; Patellar tendon; Remodeling; Tissue healing

Indexed keywords

LIGAMENTS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; TENDONS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING;

COLLAGEN FASCICLES; PATELLAR TENDONS (PT); REGENERATED TISSUES; TISSUE HEALING;

COLLAGEN;

COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PATELLA TENDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE REPAIR; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; RABBITS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WOUND HEALING;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 33947506957     PISSN: 09592989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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