A finite element model predicts the mechanotransduction response of tendon cells to cyclic tensile loading

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 405-416

  Lavagnino, Michael ^a   Arnoczky, Steven P ^a   Kepich, Eugene ^b   Caballero, Oscar ^a   Haut, Roger C ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METALLURGY; MODAL ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; STRAIN; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TENDONS;

APPLIED STRAIN; BIOLOGICAL RESPONSES; CELL DEFORMATION; CELLULAR LEVELS; CELLULAR RESPONSES; COLLAGENASE; CYCLIC TENSILE; FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; FLUID FLOWING; FLUID PHASES; GLOBAL RESPONSE; MECHANO-TRANSDUCTION; MODEL ANALYSIS; MULTI SCALING; STRAIN AMPLITUDES;

STRAIN RATE;

RATTUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TENDON; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDONS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 50149104411     PISSN: 16177959     EISSN: 16822978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10237-007-0104-z     Document Type: Article

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