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1277 12842 Ensembl ENSG00000108821 ENSMUSG00000001506 UniProt P02452 P11087 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_000088 NM_007742 RefSeq (protein) NP_000079 NP_031768 Location (UCSC) Chr 17: 50.18 – 50.2 Mb Chr 11: 94.83 – 94.84 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Collagen, type I, alpha 1, also known as alpha-1 type I collagen, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the COL1A1 gene ...
Collagen is one of the body's key natural resources and a component of skin tissue that can benefit all stages of wound healing. [21] When collagen is made available to the wound bed, closure can occur. This avoids wound deterioration and procedures such as amputation.
Timing is important to wound healing. Critically, the timing of wound re-epithelialization can decide the outcome of the healing. [11] If the epithelization of tissue over a denuded area is slow, a scar will form over many weeks, or months; [12] [13] If the epithelization of a wounded area is fast, the healing will result in regeneration.
Collagen IV (ColIV or Col4) is a type of collagen found primarily in the basal lamina. The collagen IV C4 domain at the C-terminus is not removed in post-translational processing, and the fibers link head-to-head, rather than in parallel. Also, collagen IV lacks the regular glycine in every third residue necessary for the tight, collagen helix ...
Keloid, also known as keloid disorder and keloidal scar, [1] is the formation of a type of scar which, depending on its maturity, is composed mainly of either type III (early) or type I (late) collagen.
The thermal stabilization is also hindered when the hydroxyl group has the wrong configuration. Due to the high abundance of glycine and proline contents, collagen fails to form a regular α-helix and β-sheet structure. Three left-handed helical strands twist to form a right-handed triple helix. [5] A collagen triple helix has 3.3 residues per ...
The collagen fibers in dense regular connective tissue are bundled in a parallel fashion. DRCT is divided into white fibrous connective tissue and yellow fibrous connective tissue, both of which occur in two forms: cord arrangement and sheath arrangement.
Negative pressure wound therapy device. Negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT), also known as a vacuum assisted closure (VAC), is a therapeutic technique using a suction pump, tubing, and a dressing to remove excess wound exudate and to promote healing in acute or chronic wounds and second- and third-degree burns.