A viscometric study of dilute collagen solutions

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Cerny, L.C.^{; *} | Grauz, J.D.^{; **} | James, H.^{; ***}

Affiliations: Masonic Medical Research Laboratory and Utica College of Syracuse University, Utica, New York 13502, U.S.A.

Note: [*] Career Development Awardee, U.S.P.H.S. HE 17,948.

Note: [**] Present address: Department of Biophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

Note: [***] Present address: General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio.

Abstract: The time dependence of the viscosity of dilute solutions of collagen was used as a means of investigating a kinetic mechanism for the unwinding of the collagen triple helix. It was possible to show that a two step process could be used to explain the data. From a temperature related viscosity study, activation parameters were obtained for the kinetics of unwinding for collagen from both young and old rat tail tendons.

DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1970-6303

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 161-168, 1970