Varying whole body vibration amplitude differentially affects tendon and ligament structural and material properties

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1496-1500

  Keller, Benjamin V ^a,c   Davis, Matthew L ^a   Thompson, William R ^b   Dahners, Laurence E ^b   Weinhold, Paul S ^a,b  

^a Biomedical Research Imaging Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Collagen expression; Ligament; Tendon; Whole body vibration

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COLLAGEN; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; LIGAMENTS; MUSCLE; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ACHILLES TENDONS; ANABOLIC RESPONSE; BIOMECHANICAL DATA; COLLAGEN EXPRESSION; LIGAMENT PROPERTIES; MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENTS; QUANTITATIVE RT-PCR; WHOLE BODY VIBRATION;

TENDONS;

SOMATOMEDIN C;

18S GENE; ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BMP 12 GENE; BONE DENSITY; CATABOLISM; COL1ALPHA1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COX 2 GENE; FLAP GENE; GAPDH GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; IL 6 GENE; IL1 BETA GENE; LIGAMENT; MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT; MMP 13 GENE; NONHUMAN; PATELLA TENDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TENDON; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE REACTION; TNFALPHA GENE; VEGFA GENE; WHOLE BODY VIBRATION;

EID: 84878013173     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2013.03.033     Document Type: Article

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