3-D ultrastructure and collagen composition of healthy and overloaded human tendon: Evidence of tenocyte and matrix buckling

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 224, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 548-555

  Pingel, Jessica ^a   Lu, Yinhui ^b   Starborg, Tobias ^b   Fredberg, Ulrich ^c   Langberg, Henning ^a   Nedergaard, Anders ^a   Weis, Maryann ^d   Eyre, David ^d   Kjaer, Michael ^a   Kadler, Karl E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c SILKEBORG REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collagen; Cross links; Fibers; Fibrils; Serial block face scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; CHOLESTEROL; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; URIC ACID;

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL BUCKLING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SHAPE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENDON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

3VIEW®; COLLAGEN; CROSS-LINKS; FIBERS; FIBRILS; SERIAL BLOCK FACE-SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; COLLAGEN TYPE III; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDINOPATHY;

EID: 84898059496     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joa.12164     Document Type: Article

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