Concerted and adaptive alignment of decorin dermatan sulfate filaments in the graded organization of collagen fibrils in the equine superficial digital flexor tendon

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 156-163

  Watanabe, Takafumi ^a,e   Imamura, Yasutada ^b   Suzuki, Daisuke ^c   Hosaka, Yoshinao ^d,e   Ueda, Hiromi ^e   Hiramatsu, Kohzy ^a   Takehana, Kazushige ^e  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collagen fibril; Decorin; Dermatan sulfate; Horse; Tendon

Indexed keywords

CHONDROITIN SULFATE; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; DECORIN; DERMATAN SULFATE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FLEXOR TENDON; HORSE; LUBRICATION; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERFICIAL DIGITAL FLEXOR TENDON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COLLAGEN; DECORIN; DERMATAN SULFATE; ELECTROPHORESIS; HORSES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; TENDONS;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 84855462886     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2011.01456.x     Document Type: Article

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