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SUBMITTER: Vader D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2691583 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vader David D Kabla Alexandre A Weitz David D Mahadevan Lakshminarayana L
PloS one 20090616 6
Collagen is the most abundant extracellular-network-forming protein in animal biology and is important in both natural and artificial tissues, where it serves as a material of great mechanical versatility. This versatility arises from its almost unique ability to remodel under applied loads into anisotropic and inhomogeneous structures. To explore the origins of this property, we develop a set of analysis tools and a novel experimental setup that probes the mechanical response of fibrous network ...[more]