Normal aging alters in vivo passive biomechanical response of the rat gastrocnemius-Achilles muscle-tendon unit

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 450-455

  Plate, Johannes F ^a   Wiggins, Walter F ^a   Haubruck, Patrick ^b   Scott, Aaron T ^a   Smith, Thomas L ^a   Saul, Katherine R ^a,c   Mannava, Sandeep ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Virginia Tech Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Achilles tendon rupture; Aging; Fung QLV; Passive biomechanical properties; Quasilinear viscoelastic

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDONS; AGE-RELATED CHANGES; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; BIOMECHANICAL RESPONSE; EFFECTIVE STIFFNESS; ELASTIC PARAMETERS; ELASTIC RESPONSE; FUNG QLV; IN-VIVO; PARAMETER C; QUASI-LINEAR; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; TIME-DEPENDENT;

AGING OF MATERIALS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; MUSCLE; RATS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS;

TENDONS;

ACHILLES TENDON; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISCHER 344 RAT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; IN VIVO STUDY; JOINT PRESSURE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL STIFFNESS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE REACTION; VISCOELASTICITY; WEIGHT BEARING; YOUNG MODULUS;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84872598983     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2012.11.007     Document Type: Article

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