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. 2019 May 15;7:107. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00107

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Tendon fibers immersed in a matrix substance (A). Maceri et al. (2012) and Gautieri et al. (2017) defining a certain averaged, unit-cell fiber content (Karathanasopoulos et al., 2019) (B). The short-time relaxation response of in-vitro human tendon fascicles upon repetitive incremental loading steps (C). Gautieri et al. (2017) and their theoretical representation by means of Maxwell-type relaxing elements with a primal material viscosity η (Lakes, 2009) (D,E). (A,C) are reproduced with the permission of the copyright holder [RightsLink/Elsevier].