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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 9.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2017 Apr 21;57:363–372. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2017.04.011

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4.

Fibril-level deformation of tendon fascicles. (A) Fibril strain fully recovered for all strain groups, suggesting that the collagen fibrils are undamaged. On the other hand, (B) interfibrillar sliding only partially recovered, exhibiting damage at the fibril-level. Dashed line represents when samples were unloaded and error bars represent SEM. (C), The interfibrillar sliding τ was strain independent and averaged 7.43 min, suggesting that 60-min rest was long enough for interfibrillar sliding recovery. The dashed lines represent the 95% confidence intervals.