Effects of repetitive multiple freeze-thaw cycles on the biomechanical properties of human flexor digitorum superficialis and flexor pollicis longus tendons

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 419-423

  Huang, Hongjie ^a   Zhang, Jihua ^a   Sun, Kang ^a   Zhang, Xiaoguang ^b   Tian, Shaoqi ^a  

^a University Medical College   (China)

^b QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

ACL reconstruction; Biomechanics; Freeze thaw; Graft preparation and preservation; Tendon allograft

Indexed keywords

ACL RECONSTRUCTION; BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; BIOMECHANICAL TESTING; CREEP TESTS; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; FAILURE TEST; FREEZE-THAW; FREEZE-THAW CYCLES; FREEZING THAWING CYCLES; FREEZING-THAWING; RELAXATION TEST; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; TESTING MACHINE; ULTIMATE LOADS; ULTIMATE STRESS; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; CREEP; CREEP TESTING; FREEZING; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); GRAFTS; LOAD TESTING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SAFETY FACTOR; STRESS RELAXATION; STRESSES; TENDONS; TESTING;

THAWING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; FLEXOR DIGITORUM SUPERFICIALIS; FLEXOR POLLICIS LONGUS TENDON; FLEXOR TENDON; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TENDON GRAFT; TENDON STRESS; YOUNG MODULUS;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TENDONS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 79953289175     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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