collagen handedness; fibrillar crimp; helical crimps; ligament; planar crimps; tendon

Tendon and ligament fibrillar crimps give rise to left-handed helices of collagen fibrils in both planar and helical crimps

Tendons and ligaments have a wavy structure known as a "crimp," which straightens out as the tissue is stretched. This study on rat tissue used various microscopy techniques to examine the 3D shape of the individual col…