Uniaxial tensile testing of canine annulus fibrosus tissue under changing salt concentrations

Issue title: 3rd International Symposium on Mechanobiology of Cartilage and Chondrocyte. Brussels, May 16–17, 2003

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Huyghe, J.M.^; | Drost, M.R.

Affiliations: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands | University of Maastricht, Department of Movement Sciences, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Note: [] Address for correspondence: J.M. Huyghe, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 40 2473137; Fax: +31 40 2447355; E‐mail: [email protected].

Abstract: Recent modelling efforts in the field of mechanics of the intervertebral disc, demonstrate that the deformation properties of intervertebral disc tissue are intimately linked to compositional changes. This paper presents uniaxial tensile relaxation experiments of canine annulus fibrosus tissue under stepwise changes of external salt concentration.

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 41, no. 3-4, pp. 255-261, 2004