title: Structural and mechanical effects of in vivo fatigue damage induction on murine tendon.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an in vivo mouse model of tendon fatigue and use this model to investigate and quantify the physical manifestations of fatigue damage in mouse tendon. Patellar tendons of C57BL/6J mice were fatigue loaded at 2 Hz to three endpoints (4 N peak force per cycle for 1 h, 6 N for 1 h, and 4 N for 2 h), during which hysteresis, tangent stiffness, and peak strain of each cycle were measured. Damage accumulation was then quantified using in situ histology, and each tendon was loaded monotonically to failure. Histological damage increased significantly in all three groups (≥2-fold), and monotonic stiffness decreased significantly in the 6 N, 1 h and 4 N, 2-h groups (~25%), suggesting that damage initially manifests as changes to the collagen structure of the tendon and subsequently as changes to the function. For the fatigue loading protocols used in this study, none of the evaluated real-time parameters from fatigue loading correlated with damage area fraction measured structural damage or monotonic stiffness, suggesting that they are not suited to serve as proxies for damage accumulation. In future studies, this model will be used to compare the biological response of mouse tendon to fatigue damage across genetic strains.
authors.affiliation: Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA.
authors.forename: Jedd B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Sereysky
authors.forename: Nelly
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Andarawis-Puri
authors.forename: Karl J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Jepsen
authors.forename: Evan L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Flatow
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D003094:Collagen / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005221:Fatigue / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006614:Hindlimb; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D012421:Rupture; D013264:Stifle / Q000293:injuries / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013708:Tendon Injuries / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013710:Tendons / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D016474:Weight-Bearing
chemical_list: D003094:Collagen
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