With the support of the Pamela and David Ott Fund and the John M. O'Quinn Foundation, The Pamela and David Ott Center of Excellence in Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue and Ehlers-Danlos ...

CARBOHYDRATE is necessary in the body, not only as a source of energy but also as an integral part of its structure and functional components, connective-tissue matrix, nucleic acids, galactolipids of ...

The fibrous proteins and ground substance produced by fibroblasts are what constitute the extracellular matrix (ECM), which makes up the bulk of connective tissue. The ECM has many roles within ...

Researcher Marley Dewey, an assistant professor of bioengineering at UC Santa Barbara, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research award to support her work on recently discovered ...

Robert Mauck, PhD, from the University of Pennsylvania, discussed how aging and differentiation alter nuclear mechanobiology at the 2014 American Society of Bone and Mineral Research Conference in ...

Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have discovered a specialized population of neutrophils in the skin that produce extracellular matrix components, helping ...