Osmotic pressure induced tensile forces in tendon collagen

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Masic, Admir ^a   Bertinetti, Luca ^a   Schuetz, Roman ^a   Chang, Shu Wei ^b   Metzger, Till Hartmut ^a   Buehler, Markus J ^b   Fratzl, Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; MACROGOL; WATER;

COLLAGEN; MUSCLE; PROTEIN; TENSILE STRENGTH; WATER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLLAGEN FIBER; CONFORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMIDITY; HYDRATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRESS; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OSMOTIC STRESS; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; RAT; TENDON; TRIPLE HELIX; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ANIMAL; BONE; CHEMISTRY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OSMOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PRESSURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; X RAY;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; OSMOSIS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TEMPERATURE; TENDONS; TENSILE STRENGTH; WATER; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; X-RAYS;

EID: 84928331740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6942     Document Type: Article

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