Low Temperature Electron Diffraction and Beam Effects in Tendon Collagen
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Connective Tissue Research
- Vol. 5 (4), 201-204
- https://doi.org/10.3109/03008207809152273
Abstract
In the course of experiments to obtain electron diffraction from frozen rat tail tendon (RTT) collagen, a characteristic development of perforations relating to the banding pattern was observed under conditions of moderate beam intensity. This is most likely to be due to an etching process resulting from ionization or sublimation of bound or preferentially retained water molecules in the band-interband region and could provide a means of visualization of the location of such water.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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