Graded arrangement of collagen fibrils in the equine superficial digital flexor tendon

Connective Tissue Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 332-337

  Watanabe, Takafumi ^a   Imamura, Yasutada ^a   Hosaka, Yoshinao ^a   Ueda, Hiromi ^a   Takehana, Kazushige ^b  

^a RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collagen fibril; Diameter; Horse; Tendon; Type V collagen

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; COLLAGEN TYPE 5;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLEXOR TENDON; HORSE; IMAGE DISPLAY; METACARPAL BONE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPERFICIAL DIGITAL FLEXOR TENDON; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE I; COLLAGEN TYPE III; COLLAGEN TYPE V; FORELIMB; HORSES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; TENDONS;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 37349112441     PISSN: 03008207     EISSN: 16078438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03008200701692800     Document Type: Article

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