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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2019 Oct 9;1460(1):57–67. doi: 10.1111/nyas.14250

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Murine ACL reconstruction procedure using tail tendon autograft. Three incisions along the length of the tail (A) were used to isolate segments of tail tendons (B). These tendon bundles were secured with suture (green circles in C) and a cortical fixator was applied to the midpoint of the bundle (yellow arrowhead in C). The ACL (red arrow in D) was accessed using an anteromedial approach. The tibial and femoral tunnels were drilled (E–F) and the graft was fed into the tunnels from the femur (G) and out the tibia (H). The cortical fixator (yellow arrowhead in H and J) provided fixation on the femur while the tail tendon bundle was tied and sutured to the adjacent muscle (I) to provide fixation on the tibia. White scale bars in top row are 10 mm while yellow scale bars in bottom row are 1 millimeter.