Morphological and mechanical study of microfiber bundle

• Main Author: Li, Jiande.
• Other Authors: Chua Chee Kai
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16952
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A tendon is a fibrous band of collagenous tissue that is primarily used to transfer the force created by the muscle to the bone, thus allowing possible joint movement. When the tendon becomes impaired, tissue engineering uses tissue scaffold that serves as matrix for tissue growth, to restore and re...