A new study reveals how collagen plays a crucial role in worsening Type 2 diabetes. While insulin and amylin hormones work ...

In a recent study by IIT Bombay, collagen may have a role to play in making your Type 2 diabetes worse. Type 2 diabetes, ...

Collagen, which is considered as a key component for healthy skin may be worsening your type 2 diabetes. Read what the new ...

IIT Bombay researchers uncover how collagen accelerates clumping of hormones in the pancreas, identifying a previously ...

Figure 1. Major components of the extracellular matrix (connective tissue) of the liver and the four most important targets of changes of the fibrotic matrix. The bindings of glycosaminoglycans ...

Scientists have found a novel way that includes a new lab-grown material that could help slow and even reverse some of the ...

Connective tissue growth factor (CCN2/CTGF) is a matricellular-secreted protein involved in extracellular matrix remodeling. The P19 cell line is an embryonic carcinoma line widely used as a cellular ...

This elastin protein also enables connective tissues to recoil. As a result, elastin is much more flexible than collagen. Elastin is actually 1,000 times more stretchy than collagen.

Abstract Abstract Hereditary connective tissue disorders include more than 200 conditions affecting different organs and tissues, compromising the biological role of the extracellular matrix through ...

Abstract Hereditary connective tissue disorders include more than 200 conditions affecting different organs and tissues, compromising the biological role of the extracellular matrix through ...

Article citations More>> Halper, J. and Kjaer, M. (2014) Basic Components of Connective Tissues and Extracellular Matrix: Elastin, Fibrillin, Fibulins, Fibrinogen, Fibronectin, Laminin, Tenascins and ...

Tissue microenvironments formed by extracellular matrix (ECM) networks play a crucial role in regulating tissue structure and function. Extracellular microfibrillar networks composed of large ...