Collagens and their abnormalities in a wide spectrum of diseases.

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Collagens and their abnormalities in a wide spectrum of diseases.

Annals of medicine - 1 Apr 1993

Kivirikko K I

Abstract excerpt

Collagens are a family of extracellular matrix proteins that play a dominant role in maintaining the structural integrity of various tissues. Nineteen collagen types containing altogether more than 30 distinct polypeptide chains have now been identified, and their genes have been found to be disp...

Topics

Animals
Chromosome Mapping
Collagen
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Female
Fibrosis
Humans
Male
Marfan Syndrome
Mice
Mice, Transgenic
Mutation
Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Osteoporosis
Procollagen-Proline Dioxygenase

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