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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2017 Sep 7;63:200–209. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2017.09.006

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Flexion angle measurement. (a) Chicken claw is fixed on a flat surface and the tendon is pulled at a constant load of 1.5 N applied via a dead-weight. Flexion angles of proximal, middle and distal phalanxes were measured with image processing. (b) All treatment groups (nylon, ELAs and ELAS incorporated PDGF-BB) showed no significant differences (p > 0.05) in flexion angles at 12 weeks following the repair. Flexion angle of intact tendon was found to be significantly higher than all treated groups.