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. 2018 Jul 23;8:11107. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-29502-7

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Cyclic tensile strain leads to cilia disassembly in situ within tendon tissue. Primary cilia (a) prevalence and (b) length in the FM and IFM region of fresh rat tail tendon fascicles and following 24 hours of either cyclic tensile strain (4%, 1 Hz); stress deprivation or static tensile strain (4%). Prevalence values represent mean with error bars indicating Poisson standard error. N = 10–50 cilia per condition from 90 ± 30 observed cells from fascicles from 1 rat. Box and whisker plot show cilia length. Significance for prevalence data was calculated using chi-squared tests. Length data were analysed with 2-factor Anova. Significance at the 0.001 level was found for both tissue region and treatment type but interactions were not found to be significant at the 0.05 level. Post hot testing was done using Tukey-Kramer. Statistically significant differences are indicated between FM and IFM and relative to corresponding values for fresh fascicles, p < 0.05 (*) and p < 0.001 (***).