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SUBMITTER: Matteini P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3446693 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Matteini Paolo P Cicchi Riccardo R Ratto Fulvio F Kapsokalyvas Dimitrios D Rossi Francesca F de Angelis Marella M Pavone Francesco S FS Pini Roberto R
Biophysical journal 20120901 6
The thermal transitions of fibrillar collagen are investigated with second-harmonic generation polarization anisotropy microscopy. Second-harmonic generation images and polarization anisotropy profiles of corneal stroma heated in the 35-80°C range are analyzed by means of a theoretical model that is suitable to probe principal intramolecular and interfibrillar parameters of immediate physiological interest. Our results depict the tissue modification with temperature as the interplay of three des ...[more]