Viscoelastic characteristics of the canine cranial cruciate ligament complex at slow strain rates.

ABSTRACT: Ligaments including the cruciate ligaments support and transfer loads between bones applied to the knee joint organ. The functions of these ligaments can get compromised due to changes to their viscoelastic material properties. Currently there are discrepancies in the literature on the viscoelastic characteristics of knee ligaments which are thought to be due to tissue variability and different testing protocols. The aim of this study was to characterise the viscoelastic properties of healthy cranial cruciate ligaments (CCLs), from the canine knee (stifle) joint, with a focus on the toe region of the stress-strain properties where any alterations in the extracellular matrix which would affect viscoelastic properties would be seen. Six paired CCLs, from skeletally mature and disease-free St

SUBMITTER: Readioff R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7761198 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature