Bundles of Spider Silk, Braided into Sutures, Resist Basic Cyclic Tests: Potential Use for Flexor Tendon Repair

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Hennecke, Kathleen ^a   Redeker, Joern ^a   Kuhbier, Joern W ^a   Strauss, Sarah ^a   Allmeling, Christina ^a   Kasper, Cornelia ^b   Reimers, Kerstin ^a   Vogt, Peter M ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXON; POLYAMIDE; POLYGLACTIN; POLYPROPYLENE; SUTURE MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; FATIGUE; FLEXOR TENDON INJURY; HAND INJURY; MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILK SUTURE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; SUTURE; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENSILE STRENGTH; YOUNG MODULUS;

BIOMECHANICS; ELASTIC MODULUS; FIBROINS; MATERIALS TESTING; POLYPROPYLENES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUTURES; TENDON INJURIES; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOUND HEALING;

ARANEAE;

EID: 84876268508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061100     Document Type: Article

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