Abstract
Summary
The thermal shrinkage of a number of collagenous tissues (skin, aorta, tendon, and decalcified bone) has been studied following incubation with a series of carbohydrate metabolites. The data indicate that only glyceraldehyde among the metabolites studied here, is capable of acting as a tanning or cross-linking agent for collagen under a variety of experimental conditions. These latter roughly approximate the pH, ionic strength and temperature conditions of the extracellular body fluids.
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