Nano-scale mechanisms explain the stiffening and strengthening of ligament tissue with increasing strain rate

A Novel Approach to Developing Biomimetic (“Nacre-Like”) Metal-Compliant-Phase (Nickel-Alumina) Ceramics through Coextrusion

(2016) Ryan P. Wilkerson et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Multiscale alterations in bone matrix quality increased fragility in steroid induced osteoporosis

(2016) A. Karunaratne et al.   BONE

Elastin governs the mechanical response of medial collateral ligament under shear and transverse tensile loading

(2015) Heath B. Henninger et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Strain-rate sensitivity of the lateral collateral ligament of the knee

(2015) Timothy J. Bonner et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

The role of the non-collagenous matrix in tendon function

(2013) Chavaunne T. Thorpe et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY

Determining the contribution of glycosaminoglycans to tendon mechanical properties with a modified shear-lag model

(2013) Hossein Ahmadzadeh et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

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

(2012) S. Rigozzi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Viscoelastic Properties of Isolated Collagen Fibrils

(2011) Zhilei Liu Shen et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Significant deterioration in nanomechanical quality occurs through incomplete extrafibrillar mineralization in rachitic bone: Evidence from in-situ synchrotron X-ray scattering and backscattered electron imaging

(2011) Angelo Karunaratne et al.   JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH

Equivalent stiffness after glycosaminoglycan depletion in tendon — an ultra-structural finite element model and corresponding experiments

(2010) Gion Fessel et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

In situ multi-level analysis of viscoelastic deformation mechanisms in tendon collagen

(2009) H.S. Gupta et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Glycosaminoglycans show a specific periodic interaction with type I collagen fibrils

(2008) Mario Raspanti et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY