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6204124

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-8-3
pubmed:abstractText
It has been reported previously that collagen fibers will stain either red or green by Masson's and other trichrome methods depending on whether they have been respectively stressed or relaxed prior to fixation. This was shown in skin [1, 2, 3] tendon [4, 5] bone [6] and films of collagen [7]. If this stain-stress dependence is of a unique quantitative nature, then staining could be used as a tension probe for collagen fibers. Relaxed and stressed collagen bundles of rat tail tendon and rat Achilles tendon have been stained using various staining periods, and results indicate that the change in staining may be associated with denser packing of the fibers in the bundle under stress rather than directly due to the stress itself. Denser packing may reduce the rate of penetration of the counterstain thus causing the staining differences. Since this rate of penetration is dependent on a number of other variables (unrelated to stress), it is concluded that collagen staining is not a reliable tension probe.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0148-0731
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
106
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
174-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
Histological staining as a measure of stress in collagen fibers.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article