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From: Deprivation of loading during rat Achilles tendon healing affects extracellular matrix composition and structure, and reduces cell density and alignment

Fig. 2

H&E staining of healing and intact Achilles tendons. (A) Healing or intact tendon tissue, taken in the middle of the Achilles tendon (location is shown in the insert). Healing tendons were studied at different time points after being exposed to one of three different loading conditions (ML: minimal loading, RL: reduced loading, or FL: full loading). An intact tendon is shown as a reference (IT). (B) Images taken at the tendon stump in FL rats, showing the progression of stump-integration over time (imaged location is shown in the insert). Scale bar 50 μm.

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