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SUBMITTER: Quigley AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5849720 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Quigley Andrew S AS Bancelin Stéphane S Deska-Gauthier Dylan D Légaré François F Kreplak Laurent L Veres Samuel P SP
Scientific reports 20180313 1
The collagen-based tissues of animals are hierarchical structures: even tendon, the simplest collagenous tissue, has seven to eight levels of hierarchy. Tailoring tissue structure to match physiological function can occur at many different levels. We wanted to know if the control of tissue architecture to achieve function extends down to the nanoscale level of the individual, cable-like collagen fibrils. Using tendons from young adult bovine forelimbs, we performed stress-strain experiments on s ...[more]