Composition and structure of porcine digital flexor tendon-bone insertion tissues
Sandhya Chandrasekaran
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, R3158 Engineering Building 3, Campus Box 7910, 911 Oval Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695 USA
Search for more papers by this authorMark Pankow
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, R3158 Engineering Building 3, Campus Box 7910, 911 Oval Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695 USA
Search for more papers by this authorKara Peters
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, R3158 Engineering Building 3, Campus Box 7910, 911 Oval Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695 USA
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Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, R3158 Engineering Building 3, Campus Box 7910, 911 Oval Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695 USA
Correspondence to: H.-Y. S. Huang; e-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorSandhya Chandrasekaran
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, R3158 Engineering Building 3, Campus Box 7910, 911 Oval Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695 USA
Search for more papers by this authorMark Pankow
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, R3158 Engineering Building 3, Campus Box 7910, 911 Oval Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695 USA
Search for more papers by this authorKara Peters
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, R3158 Engineering Building 3, Campus Box 7910, 911 Oval Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695 USA
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Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, R3158 Engineering Building 3, Campus Box 7910, 911 Oval Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695 USA
Correspondence to: H.-Y. S. Huang; e-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
Tendon-bone insertion is a functionally graded tissue, transitioning from 200 MPa tensile modulus at the tendon end to 20 GPa tensile modulus at the bone, across just a few hundred micrometers. In this study, we examine the porcine digital flexor tendon insertion tissue to provide a quantitative description of its collagen orientation and mineral concentration by using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) based image analysis and mass spectrometry, respectively. Histological results revealed uniformity in global collagen orientation at all depths, indicative of mechanical anisotropy, although at mid-depth, the highest fiber density, least amount of dispersion, and least cellular circularity were evident. Collagen orientation distribution obtained through 2D FFT of histological imaging data from fluorescent microscopy agreed with past measurements based on polarized light microscopy. Results revealed global fiber orientation across the tendon-bone insertion to be preserved along direction of physiologic tension. Gradation in the fiber distribution orientation index across the insertion was reflective of a decrease in anisotropy from the tendon to the bone. We provided elemental maps across the fibrocartilage for its organic and inorganic constituents through time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS). The apatite intensity distribution from the tendon to bone was shown to follow a linear trend, supporting past results based on Raman microprobe analysis. The merit of this study lies in the image-based simplified approach to fiber distribution quantification and in the high spatial resolution of the compositional analysis. In conjunction with the mechanical properties of the insertion tissue, fiber, and mineral distribution results for the insertion from this may potentially be incorporated into the development of a structural constitutive approach toward computational modeling. Characterizing the properties of the native insertion tissue would provide the microstructural basis for developing biomimetic scaffolds to recreate the graded morphology of a fibrocartilaginous insertion. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 105A: 3050–3058, 2017.
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