Collagen fibre arrangement and functional crimping pattern of the medial collateral ligament in the rat knee

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1671-1678

  Franchi, Marco ^a   Quaranta, Marilisa ^a   Macciocca, Maria ^a   Leonardi, Luisa ^a   Ottani, Vittoria ^a   Bianchini, Paolo ^b   Diaspro, Alberto ^b   Ruggeri, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D collagen fibre array; Crimping pattern; Medial collateral ligament; Structure

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; KNEE LIGAMENT; MICROSCOPY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT, KNEE; MICROSCOPY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 78649966277     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1084-6     Document Type: Article

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