0 a protein found especially in the joints (= places where two bones are connected) of humans and animals
In conclusion, collagens enhance the settling of cumulus cells on a plastic substrate and the cells exhibit some specificity in attaching to collagens.
Therefore, it may be inferred that cumulus cells show some specificity in their interactions with collagens.
Mixed collagens strongly attract cumulus cells as seen by their immediate attachment to the substrate.
On mixed collagens, cells attached rapidly, appearing to be predominantly non-motile.
The cuticle is a multilayered structure that consists primarily of collagens.
On mixed collagens, the cells were spread very thinly on the substrate.
Dog collagens were not commercially available and therefore not analysed in this study.
The protein was described as possessing the highly conserved structural domains of all vertebrate and invertebrate collagens.
