Tendon glycosaminoglycan proteoglycan sidechains promote collagen fibril sliding-AFM observations at the nanoscale

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 813-818

  Rigozzi, S ^a   Muller R ^a   Stemmer, A ^a   Snedeker, J G ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Collagen proteoglycan interaction; Glycosaminoglycans; Molecular mechanics; Tendon

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE (AFM); CHONDROITINASE ABC'S; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; PROTEOGLYCANS; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

AMINO ACIDS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COLLAGEN; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; STRAIN;

TENDONS;

CHONDROITIN ABC LYASE; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; MACROGOL; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; PROTEOGLYCAN;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; FEMALE; HYDROPHILICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TENSILE STRENGTH; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEOGLYCANS; TENDONS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84879883969     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2012.11.017     Document Type: Article

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