Evaluating changes in tendon crimp with fatigue loading as an ex vivo structural assessment of tendon damage

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 904-910

  Freedman, Benjamin R ^a   Zuskov, Andrey ^a   Sarver, Joseph J ^a,b   Buckley, Mark R ^a,c   Soslowsky, Louis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

collagen; imaging; ligament; patellar tendon; polarized light

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; FATIGUE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HYSTERESIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LENGTH; LOADING TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATELLA LIGAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; TENDON; TENDON CRIMP; TENDON INJURY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; TENDINITIS; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALS; MICE, INBRED C57BL; TENDINOPATHY; TENDON INJURIES; TENDONS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84928828200     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: 1554527X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.22875     Document Type: Article

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