Gap junction permeability between tenocytes within tendon fascicles is suppressed by tensile loading

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 439-447

  Maeda, Eijiro ^a   Ye, Shangjun ^a,b   Wang, Wen ^a   Bader, Dan L ^a   Knight, Martin M ^a   Lee, David A ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Connexin; FLIP; Gap junction; Mechanotransduction; Tendon

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; TENDONS; TENSILE STRESS;

CONNEXIN; CONNEXIN 43; FLUORESCENT LOSS INDUCED BY PHOTOBLEACHING; GAP-JUNCTIONS; MECHANICAL LOADING; MECHANO-REGULATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; RAT TAIL TENDON; TENOCYTE; TENSILE LOADING;

PHOTOBLEACHING;

RATTUS;

CALCEIN AM; CONNEXIN 43; FLUORESCEIN DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; CYTOLOGY; LASER; LIGHT; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; TENDON; TENSILE STRENGTH; THEORETICAL MODEL; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNEXIN 43; FLUORESCEINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; LASERS; LIGHT; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERMEABILITY; PHOTOBLEACHING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDONS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84861100245     PISSN: 16177959     EISSN: 16177940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10237-011-0323-1     Document Type: Article

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