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Mineral Distributions at the Developing Tendon Enthesis

Tendon attaches to bone across a functionally graded interface, “the enthesis”. A gradient of mineral content is believed to play an important role for dissipation of stress concentrations at mature fibrocartilaginous interfaces. Surgical repair of injured tendon to bone often fails, suggesting that...

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Autores principales: Schwartz, Andrea G., Pasteris, Jill D., Genin, Guy M., Daulton, Tyrone L., Thomopoulos, Stavros
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3494702/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23152788
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048630