Collagens of articular cartilage: Structure, function, and importance in tissue engineering

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 363-411

  Responte, Donald J ^a   Natoli, Roman M ^a,b   Athanasiou, Kyriacos A ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Collagen fibril; Collagen network; Crosslink; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; CARTILAGE; COLLAGEN; CROSSLINKING; TISSUE;

ARTICULAR CARTILAGES; CARTILAGE TISSUE ENGINEERING; COLLAGEN FIBRILS; COLLAGEN NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODOLOGY; MECHANICAL INTEGRITY; TISSUE ENGINEERED CONSTRUCTS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 10; COLLAGEN TYPE 11; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; COLLAGEN TYPE 6; COLLAGEN TYPE 9; FIBRILLAR COLLAGEN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BIOMECHANICS; CARTILAGE INJURY; CELL INTERACTION; CHONDROPATHY; COMPRESSION; CROSS LINKING; DEVELOPMENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRENGTH; THEORETICAL MODEL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISCOELASTICITY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; COLLAGEN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 67649130320     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v35.i5.20     Document Type: Review

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