dc.creatorVidal, Benedicto de Campos
dc.creatorDos Anjos, Eli Heber M
dc.creatorMello, Maria Luiza S
dc.date2015-Oct
dc.date2016-05-23T19:43:14Z
dc.date2016-05-23T19:43:14Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-29T01:30:25Z
dc.date.available2018-03-29T01:30:25Z
dc.identifierCell And Tissue Research. v. 362, n. 1, p. 177-185, 2015-Oct.
dc.identifier1432-0878
dc.identifier10.1007/s00441-015-2173-0
dc.identifierhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25866201
dc.identifierhttp://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/235927
dc.identifier25866201
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/1304170
dc.descriptionEntheses are specialized biological structures that functionally anchor tendons to bones. The complexity, mechanical characteristics and properties of the entheses, particularly those related to exercise, mechanical load and pathologies, have been extensively analyzed; however, the macromolecular organization of the enthesis fibers, as assessed by polarization microscopy, has not yet been investigated. Morphological and optical anisotropy characteristics, such as birefringence, linear dichroism (LD) and differential interference contrast (DIC-PLM) properties, are thus analyzed in this study of a healthy adult mouse calcaneal tendon-bone enthesis. The molecular and supramolecular order of collagen and GAGs was determined for the collagen bundles of this enthesis. Based on a birefringence plot pattern as well as on metachromasy and linear dichroism after toluidine blue staining at pH 4.0, a similarity between the calcaneal tendon-bone enthesis and cartilage during ossification may be assumed. This similarity is assumed to favor the adequacy of this enthesis to support a compressive load. Considering that the collagen-proteoglycan complexes and the enthesis fibers themselves have a chiral nature, these structures could be acting via reciprocal signaling with the cellular environment of the enthesis.
dc.description362
dc.description177-185
dc.languageeng
dc.relationCell And Tissue Research
dc.relationCell Tissue Res.
dc.rightsfechado
dc.sourcePubMed
dc.subjectBirefringence
dc.subjectChirality
dc.subjectEnthesis
dc.subjectLinear Dichroism
dc.subjectMolecular Order
dc.titleOptical Anisotropy Reveals Molecular Order In A Mouse Enthesis.
dc.typeArtículos de revistas


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