MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF TISSUES OF LATHYRITIC ANIMALS
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF TISSUES OF LATHYRITIC ANIMALS
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DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.1962.sp007003
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发表时间:
1962-01-01
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
HARKNESS, ML
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作者:
FRY, P;HARKNESS, RD;HARKNESS, ML
Measurements have been made of the collagen content and some mechanical properties of tissues of lathyritic animals; skin, intestine and aorta from rats fed on a diet containing sweet-pea meal, and skin from chicks after injection of [beta]-amino propionitrile into the eggs. The concentration of collagen was found not to differ significantly in the normal and lathyritic tissues. Tensile strength, calculated per unit cross-sectional area of collagen, in skin and aorta of lathyritic rats was about half that in normal animals. In skin of lathyritic chicks it was about one fifth that in normal chicks. In intestine of rats no difference was found between normal and lathyritic animals. The "extensibility" of the tissues was measured by the rate of extension, after this had become constant under a constant load, corrected to standard tension/unit cross-sectional area of collagen. No differences between normal and lathyritic tissues were found in skin and intestine of rats, but extensibility was about fifteen times greater in the skin from lathyritic chicks than from normal ones. Evidence was obtained that this difference in extensibility was associated with no significant difference in the size of the collagenous framework, which suggests that extensibility is not a limiting factor in the growth of the latter.