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JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH
卷 30, 期 6, 页码 965-972出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jor.22012
关键词
tendon; collagen; damage; microstructure; murine
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资金
- NIH [GM007280, AR052743, RR09145]
- NIH-NCI [CA095823]
- NSF [DBI-9724504]
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an in vivo mouse model of tendon fatigue and use this model to investigate and quantify the physical manifestations of fatigue damage in mouse tendon. Patellar tendons of C57BL/6J mice were fatigue loaded at 2?Hz to three endpoints (4?N peak force per cycle for 1?h, 6?N for 1?h, and 4?N for 2?h), during which hysteresis, tangent stiffness, and peak strain of each cycle were measured. Damage accumulation was then quantified using in situ histology, and each tendon was loaded monotonically to failure. Histological damage increased significantly in all three groups (=2-fold), and monotonic stiffness decreased significantly in the 6?N, 1?h and 4?N, 2-h groups (similar to 25%), suggesting that damage initially manifests as changes to the collagen structure of the tendon and subsequently as changes to the function. For the fatigue loading protocols used in this study, none of the evaluated real-time parameters from fatigue loading correlated with damage area fraction measured structural damage or monotonic stiffness, suggesting that they are not suited to serve as proxies for damage accumulation. In future studies, this model will be used to compare the biological response of mouse tendon to fatigue damage across genetic strains. (c) 2011 Orthopaedic Research Society. Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Orthop Res 30:965972, 2012
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