Articular cartilage collagen: an irreplaceable framework?

Adult articular cartilage by dry weight is two-thirds collagen. The collagen has a unique molecular phenotype. The nascent type II collagen fibril is a heteropolymer, with collagen IX molecules covalently linked to the surface and collagen XI forming the filamentous template of the fibril as a whole...

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Published in:	European Cells & Materials
Main Authors:	DR Eyre, MA Weis, J-J Wu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Forum Multimedia Publishing LLC 2006-11-01
Subjects:	artilage collagen type III collagen cross-linking heterotypic fibrils osteoarthritis
Online Access:	http://www.ecmjournal.org/papers/vol012/pdf/v012a07.pdf