Passive mechanical properties of rat abdominal wall muscles suggest an important role of the extracellular connective tissue matrix

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1321-1326

  Brown, Stephen H M ^a,d   Carr, John Austin ^a   Ward, Samuel R ^a,b,c   Lieber, Richard L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

muscle; passive mechanics; sarcomere; spine; transversus abdominis

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; EXTERNAL OBLIQUE MUSCLE; EXTRACELLULAR CONNECTIVE TISSUE MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; INTERNAL OBLIQUE MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE FIBER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE MECHANICAL PROPERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SARCOMERE LENGTH; TRANSVERSE ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTIC MODULUS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SARCOMERES;

EID: 84862754087     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: 1554527X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.22068     Document Type: Article

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