Scaffold topography was characterized in terms of inter-fibre separation (ifs), fibre diameter (f.dia) and surface roughness.
Improvements in tensile strength, Young's modulus, fibre separation, crystallinity index, lignin reduction and thermal stability were observed for hemp fibres treated with a solution of 5 wt% NaOH/2 wt% Na2SO3.
Finger skin BF was measured bilaterally with the electrodes (fibre separation 0.5 mm) placed on the volar side of the distal phalanx (pulp) of the thumbs.
Finger skin blood flow was measured bilaterally with the electrodes (fibre separation 0.5 mm) placed on the volar side of the distal phalanx (pulp) of the thumb.
The general opinion is that no inflammatory cells are present in the tendinopathic tissue [ 14] and that tendinopathy is the result of a degenerative process with collagen disorganization, collagen fibre separation, increased cellularity, neovascularization and focal necrosis [ 15].
These shear stresses may initiate interface failure and frictional sliding, increasing the load in the matrix and lowering the applied stress to cause normal fibre-matrix separation.
Retting, process employing the action of bacteria and moisture on plants to dissolve or rot away much of the cellular tissues and gummy substances surrounding bast-fibre bundles, thus facilitating separation of the fibre from the stem.
Because photosynthesis is a process expected to dominate metabolism in the non-fibre fraction, these observations are consistent with the physical separation of fibre and non-fibre tissues we hoped to achieve by dissection.
Conventional scaffolding technologies include gas foaming, fibre meshes, phase separation, melt moulding, solvent casting, particulate leaching, and emulsion freeze drying [ 1].
At the vertebrate optic chiasm there is major change in fibre order and, in many animals, a separation of fibres destined for different hemispheres of the brain.
