Stiffness of the healing medial collateral ligament of the mouse

Connective Tissue Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 190-195

  Gijssen, Yvo ^a   Sierevelt, Inger N ^a   Kooloos, Jan G M ^b   Blankevoort, Leendert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Knee; Medial collateral ligament; Mouse; Structural stiffness; Testing device

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMUR; JOINT STIFFNESS; KNEE LIGAMENT; LIGAMENT RUPTURE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; RIGIDITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TIBIA; TIME; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; COLLATERAL LIGAMENTS; ELASTICITY; HINDLIMB; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOUND HEALING;

MURINAE;

EID: 7244251742     PISSN: 03008207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03008200490514158     Document Type: Article

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