Abstract
Tendon degeneration is typically described as an overuse injury with little distinction made between magnitude of load (overload) and number of cycles (overuse). Further, in vivo, animal models of tendon degeneration are mostly overuse models, where tendon damage is caused by a high number of load cycles. As a result, there is a lack of knowledge of how isolated overload leads to degeneration in tendons. A surgical model of synergist ablation (SynAb) overloads the target tendon, plantaris, by ablating its synergist tendon, Achilles. The objective of this study was to evaluate the structural and functional changes that occur following overload of plantaris tendon in a rat SynAb model. Tendon cross-sectional area (CSA) and shape changes were evaluated by longitudinal MR imaging up to 8 weeks postsurgery. Tissue-scale structural changes were evaluated by semiquantified histology and second harmonic generation microscopy. Fibril level changes were evaluated with serial block face scanning electron microscopy (SBF-SEM). Functional changes were evaluated using tension tests at the tissue and microscale using a custom testing system allowing both video and microscopy imaging. At 8 weeks, overloaded plantaris tendons exhibited degenerative changes including increases in CSA, cell density, collagen damage area fraction (DAF), and fibril diameter, and decreases in collagen alignment, modulus, and yield stress. To interpret the differences between overload and overuse in tendon, we introduce a new framework for tendon remodeling and degeneration that differentiates between the inputs of overload and overuse. In summary, isolated overload induces multiscale degenerative structural and functional changes in plantaris tendon.
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