Effect of preconditioning and stress relaxation on local collagen fiber re-alignment: Inhomogeneous properties of rat supraspinatus tendon

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Miller, Kristin S ^a   Edelstein, Lena ^a   Connizzo, Brianne K ^a   Soslowsky, Louis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

collagen fiber re alignment; inhomogeneous nonlinear tendon mechanics; polarized light; preconditioning; supraspinatus tendon

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; INHOMOGENEITIES; INHOMOGENEOUS PROPERTY; INSERTION SITE; LINEAR REGION; LOADING HISTORY; MECHANICAL TESTS; MICROSTRUCTURAL CHANGES; POTENTIAL MECHANISM; PRECONDITIONING; ROTATING POLARIZER; STRAIN VALUES; TENSILE MECHANICAL TESTING; TEST SAMPLES; TESTING SYSTEMS;

ALIGNMENT; FIBERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LOADING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL TESTING; RATS; STRESS RELAXATION; TENDONS;

COLLAGEN;

COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CAMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; POLARIMETER; RAT; SUPRASPINATUS MUSCLE TENDON; TENDON; YOUNG MODULUS; ANIMAL; MATERIALS TESTING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TENSILE STRENGTH;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; MATERIALS TESTING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDONS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84859920746     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: 15288951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4006340     Document Type: Article

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