CONSIDERABLE efforts have been made, so far, to investigate the physico-chemical as well as the biochemical nature of soft tissue collagen such as skin and tendon, especially. In refs. 1–3 it is ...

The intramuscular tendon is composed primarily of type 1 collagen, organisationally more reticular at the endomyseal ... proliferation and maturation response , resulting in formation of hypertrophic ...

Researchers will continue their work to define how broadly the system can be used for other tendon injuries and disease, as well as other types of tissue injury that result in scar formation.

Biomedical researchers at Purdue University have developed a material from pigs' intestines that, when inserted into the human body, may help it reconstruct a variety of damaged tissues, such as torn ...