Equivalent stiffness after glycosaminoglycan depletion in tendon - an ultra-structural finite element model and corresponding experiments

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 268, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-83

  Fessel, Gion ^a,b   Snedeker, Jess G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chondroitinase ABC; Collagen; Equivalence; Proteoglycans; Structure function

Indexed keywords

BIGLYCAN; CHONDROITIN ABC LYASE; CHONDROITIN SULFATE; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; DECORIN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN;

COLLAGEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MUSCLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYSACCHARIDE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RIGIDITY; SIMULATION; TENDON; TENSILE STRENGTH; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; ELASTICITY; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TAIL; TENDONS;

RATTUS;

EID: 77958064869     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.10.007     Document Type: Article

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