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Elastin [PDF]

Springer Reference Medizin, 2019
H. -D. Haubeck
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Mechanical Properties and Functions of Elastin: An Overview

Biomolecules, 2023
Human tissues must be elastic, much like other materials that work under continuous loads without losing functionality. The elasticity of tissues is provided by elastin, a unique protein of the extracellular matrix (ECM) of mammals.
H. Trębacz, Angelika Barzycka
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Elastin Structure, Synthesis, Regulatory Mechanism and Relationship With Cardiovascular Diseases

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021
As the primary component of elastic fibers, elastin plays an important role in maintaining the elasticity and tensile ability of cardiovascular, pulmonary and many other tissues and organs.
Keke Wang, Xiangguang Meng, Zhikun Guo
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Recent Advances in Elastin-Based Biomaterial.

Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2020
Elastin is one of the main components of the extracellular matrix; it provides resistance and elasticity to a variety of tissues and organs of the human body, besides participating in cellular signaling.
María Luisa Del Prado Audelo, N. Mendoza-Muñoz, L. Escutia-Guadarrama, D. Giraldo-Gomez, M. González-Torres, B. Florán, H. Cortés, G. Leyva-Gómez   +7 more
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Spatial and temporal changes in extracellular elastin and laminin distribution during lung alveolar development [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2018
Lung alveolarization requires precise coordination of cell growth with extracellular matrix (ECM) synthesis and deposition. The role of extracellular matrices in alveogenesis is not fully understood, because prior knowledge is largely extrapolated from ...
Chen, Hui, Fernandez, G. Esteban, Krenitsky, Daria, Li, Nan, Luo, Yongfeng, Mecham, Robert P., Moats, Rex, Pryhuber, Gloria S., Shi, Wei, Warburton, David   +9 more
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Elastin is Localised to the Interfascicular Matrix of Energy Storing Tendons and Becomes Increasingly Disorganised With Ageing [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2017
Tendon is composed of fascicles bound together by the interfascicular matrix (IFM). Energy storing tendons are more elastic and extensible than positional tendons; behaviour provided by specialisation of the IFM to enable repeated interfascicular sliding
A Heinz, AJ Viera, B Vrhovski, C Thorpe, C Thorpe, CT Thorpe, CT Thorpe, CT Thorpe, CT Thorpe, CT Thorpe, CT Thorpe, D Bedell-Hogan, EL Batson, F Ramirez, H Birch, H Oxlund, H Tempfer, HL Birch, IM Braverman, J Fallon, JA Foster, JA Foster, JA Pierce, JE Wagenseil, JF Innes, K Kubo, KD Smith, L Nimeskern, L Robert, L Robert, M Akagawa, M Benjamin, M Luisetti, MJ Sherratt, P Berens, P Kannus, PPY Lui, R Alexander, R Ker, SA Fenwick, SE Greenwald, SG Dakin, T Watanabe, TB Csóka, TC Lee, TM Grant, TM Grant, Z Gunja-Smith, Z Liu   +48 more
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The liquid structure of elastin

eLife, 2016
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 intrinsically disordered hydrophobic proteins that undergo liquid ...
Sarah Rauscher, R. Pomès
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Elastin in the Liver

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
J. Kanta
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Clinical Relevance of Elastin in the Structure and Function of Skin

Aesthetic Surgery Journal Open Forum, 2021
Elastin is the main component of elastic fibers, which provide stretch, recoil, and elasticity to the skin. Normal levels of elastic fiber production, organization, and integration with other cutaneous extracellular matrix proteins, proteoglycans, and ...
L. Baumann, E. Bernstein, A. Weiss, D. Bates, S. Humphrey, Michael B Silberberg, R. Daniels   +6 more
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Spatial distribution and network morphology of epicardial, endocardial, interstitial, and Purkinje cell-associated elastin fibers in porcine left ventricle

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, Song Zhang, Yue Liu, Bryn Brazile, Jim Cooley, J. Ryan Butler, Sara R. McMahan, Karla L. Perez, Jiazhu Xu, Timothy Eastep, Kytai T. Nguyen, Pietro Bajona, Matthias Peltz, Huajian Gao, Yi Hong, Jun Liao   +15 more
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