Bimodal collagen fibril diameter distributions direct age-related variations in tendon resilience and resistance to rupture

Regional stiffening with aging in tibialis anterior tendons of mice occurs independent of changes in collagen fibril morphology

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Hierarchical Structure and Nanomechanics of Collagen Microfibrils from the Atomistic Scale Up

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Effects of frozen storage temperature on the elasticity of tendons from a small murine model

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In vivo estimation of the contribution of elastin and collagen to the mechanical properties in the human abdominal aorta: effect of age and sex

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Growth of Collagen Fibril Seeds from Embryonic Tendon: Fractured Fibril Ends Nucleate New Tip Growth

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Molecular structure, mechanical behavior and failure mechanism of the C-terminal cross-link domain in type I collagen

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Characterization of age-related variation in corneal biomechanical properties

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Mechanical properties and collagen cross-linking of the patellar tendon in old and young men

(2009) C. Couppé et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

Lower strength of the human posterior patellar tendon seems unrelated to mature collagen cross-linking and fibril morphology

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An engineering, multiscale constitutive model for fiber-forming collagen in tension

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Deformation micromechanisms of collagen fibrils under uniaxial tension

(2009) Y. Tang et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Evidence against proteoglycan mediated collagen fibril load transmission and dynamic viscoelasticity in tendon

(2009) Gion Fessel et al.   MATRIX BIOLOGY

Decorin Core Protein (Decoron) Shape Complements Collagen Fibril Surface Structure and Mediates Its Binding

(2009) Joseph P. R. O. Orgel et al.   PLoS One

Stress-Strain Experiments on Individual Collagen Fibrils

(2008) Zhilei L. Shen et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Influence of aging on the in vivo properties of human patellar tendon

(2008) C. C. Carroll et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

Thermo-mechanical behavior of low-dimensional systems: The local bond average approach

(2008) Chang Q. Sun   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE

Common Interruptions in the Repeating Tripeptide Sequence of Non-fibrillar Collagens: Sequence Analysis and Structural Studies on Triple-helix Peptide Models

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