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Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2015 The mechanical stability, elasticity, inherent bioactivity, and self‐assembly properties of elastin make it a highly attractive candidate for the fabrication of versatile biomaterials. The ability to engineer specific peptide sequences derived from elastin allows the precise control of these physicochemical and organizational characteristics, and ...
Giselle C Yeo, Matti A Hiob, Pearl Lee
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2016 A characteristic feature of liver cirrhosis is the accumulation of large amounts of connective tissue with the prevailing content of type I collagen. Elastin is a minor connective tissue component in normal liver but it is actively synthesized by hepatic
Jiri Kanta
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The liquid structure of elastin
eLife, 2017 The protein elastin imparts extensibility, elastic recoil, and resilience to tissues including arterial walls, skin, lung alveoli, and the uterus. Elastin and elastin-like peptides are hydrophobic, disordered, and undergo liquid-liquid phase separation ...
Sarah Rauscher, Régis Pomès
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Bioactive Materials, 2023 Cardiac extracellular matrices (ECM) play crucial functional roles in cardiac biomechanics. Previous studies have mainly focused on collagen, the major structural ECM in heart wall. The role of elastin in cardiac mechanics, however, is poorly understood.
Xiaodan Shi +15 more
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Respiratory Research, 2021 Background Elastin degradation has been established as one of the driving factors of emphysema. Elastin-derived peptides (EDPs) are shown to act as a chemoattractant for monocytes.
Vaideesh Parasaram +3 more
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Comparisons of the effects of silk elastin and collagen sponges on wound healing in murine models
Regenerative Therapy, 2023 Introductions: Silk elastin, a recombinant protein with repeats of elastin and silk fibroin, possesses a self-gelling ability and is a potential wound dressing material.
Eiichi Sawaragi +9 more
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European Journal of Breast Health, 2022 Objective:The stiffness of a breast lesion provides information on the likelihood of malignancy. The most important factor affecting this stiffness is the composition of the extracellular matrix (ECM).
Nurşen Toprak +4 more
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The effect of static stretch on elastin degradation in arteries. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Previously we have shown that gradual changes in the structure of elastin during an elastase treatment can lead to important transition stages in the mechanical behavior of arteries.
Ming-Jay Chow +3 more
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Elastin Fiber Accumulation in Liver Correlates with the Development of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The fibrosis stage, which is evaluated by the distribution pattern of collagen fibers, is a major predictor for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) for patients with hepatitis C.
Yutaka Yasui +19 more
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Nature, 1953 IN previous publications1,2, we reported that extracts of animal pancreas made with fluids of different pH exhibit varying elastolytic activity (e.u./gm.) on account of the presence of elastase inhibitor, which in the pancreas is bound to elastase3. In crude neutral solution, the activation of elastase may be carried out by acidification, dialysis or ...
I, BANGA, J, BALO
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