Tip-mediated fusion involving unipolar collagen fibrils accounts for rapid fibril elongation, the occurrence of fibrillar branched networks in skin and the paucity of collagen fibril ends in vertebrates

Matrix Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 359-365

  Kadler, Karl E ^a   Holmes, David F ^a   Graham, Helen ^a   Starborg, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bipolar; Collagen; Electron microscopy; Fibrils; Proteoglycan; Unipolar

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; PROCOLLAGEN; PROTEOGLYCAN;

COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0034253758     PISSN: 0945053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0945-053X(00)00082-2     Document Type: Short Survey

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