New UCLA research conducted using mouse models and human genetic data has uncovered a critical factor that determines how ...

Challenging the long-standing belief that fibroblasts produce skin collagen, researchers have investigated collagen formation in the 'glass-skinned' amphibian axolotl and other vertebrates.

Animal experiments have provided strong evidence for the involvement of a tyrosine kinase receptor for type II collagen, discoidin domain receptor 2 (DDR2), in the pathogenesis of OA. Sunk et al.