Mechanisms of bioprosthetic heart valve failure: fatigue causes collagen denaturation and glycosaminoglycan loss

N Vyavahare, M Ogle, FJ Schoen… - … Research: An Official …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Bioprosthetic heart valve (BPHV) degeneration, characterized by extracellular matrix
deterioration, remodeling, and calcification, is an important clinical problem accounting for …

The secondary structure of type I collagen N-telopeptide as demonstrated by Fourier transform IR spectroscopy and molecular modeling

A George, JP Malone, A Veis - Proceedings of the Indian Academy of …, 1999 - Springer
The amino-telopeptides of type I collagen have been implicated to have a crucial role in the
events of fibril formation. The sequences have been highly conserved in a variety of species …