Collagen self-assembly and the development of tendon mechanical properties.

By F. Silver, J. Freeman, G. P. Seehra. Journal of Biomechanics, 2003

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A review of impact resistant biological and bioinspired materials and structures (2020, background): “Tendons and ligaments have time- and history-dependent viscoelastic/viscoplastic properties, which are due to viscoelasticity of solid phase and water interaction with ground substance [45,48].”
Mechanobiology of tendon. (2006, background): “…fibroblasts (MacKenna et al., 2000), cardiac myocytes (Sadoshima and Izumo, 1997), smooth muscle cells (Osol, 1995), endothelial cells (Davies, 1995; Resnick and Gimbrone, 1995), bone cells (Duncan and Turner, 1995), lung cells (Liu and Post, 2000), and dermal fibroblasts (Silver et al., 2003a).”
Tailoring Mechanical Properties of Collagen-Based Scaffolds for Vascular Tissue Engineering: The Effects of pH, Temperature and Ionic Strength on Gelation (2010, unknown): “It has been widely documented that these small aggregates undergo in vitro ―self-assembly‖ at neutral pH, in salt solution and at 37 °C or room temperature, forming fibrils with the typical banding pattern [11].”