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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2014

Modelling the mechanics of partially mineralized collagen fibrils, fibres and tissue.

Yanxin Liu, Stavros Thomopoulos, Changqing Chen, Victor Birman, Markus J Buehler, Guy M Genin

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51 citing papers in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Yanxin LiuDepartment of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University, , St Louis, MO 63130, USA.
Stavros Thomopoulos
Changqing Chen
Victor Birman
Markus J Buehler
Guy M Genin

Funding

Tendon Enthesis Development and RegenerationR01AR055580 · NIAMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI THOMOPOULOS, STAVROS · 2009 to 2019
$4.0M
Cross-scale interactions between mineral and collagen for tendon-bone attachmentU01EB016422 · NIBIB · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI GENIN, GUY M, THOMOPOULOS, STAVROS · 2013 to 2017
$2.4M
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR055580NIBIB NIH HHS U01EB01642NIBIB NIH HHS U01 EB016422
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Progressive stiffening of collagen tissue by bioapatite mineral is important physiologically, but the details of this stiffening are uncertain. Unresolved questions about the details of the accommodation of bioapatite within and upon collagen's hierarchical structure have posed a central hurdle, but recent microscopy data resolve several major questions. These data suggest how collagen accommodates bioapatite at the lowest relevant hierarchical level (collagen fibrils), and suggest several possibilities for the progressive accommodation of bioapatite at higher hierarchical length scales (fibres and tissue). We developed approximations for the stiffening of collagen across spatial hierarchies based upon these data, and connected models across hierarchies levels to estimate mineralization-dependent tissue-level mechanics. In the five possible sequences of mineralization studied, percolation of the bioapatite phase proved to be an important determinant of the degree of stiffening by bioapatite. The models were applied to study one important instance of partially mineralized tissue, which occurs at the attachment of tendon to bone. All sequences of mineralization considered reproduced experimental observations of a region of tissue between tendon and bone that is more compliant than either tendon or bone, but the size and nature of this region depended strongly upon the sequence of mineralization. These models and observations have implications for engineered tissue scaffolds at the attachment of tendon to bone, bone development and graded biomimetic attachment of dissimilar hierarchical materials in general.

Indexed as

Models, BiologicalApatitesBiomechanical PhenomenaBone and BonesCalcification, PhysiologicCollagenTendonsApatitesCollagenbonemechanics of developing tissuesmineralizationmineralized fibrilsnanomechanicstendon-to-bone attachment

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PMID24352669
PMCPMC3899858

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