Collagen regeneration

rafale09

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11 years ago

This is a hypothetical question.

Supposing there's a young person anywhere between the ages of 12-25 who has had all of their collagen, fibroblasts and fibrocytes in their skin damaged or destroyed. Would the collagen be able to fully regenerate with time, or only partially?

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James_555

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11 years ago

did you manage to find anything? i would like an answer to this as well.

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rafale09 Author

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11 years ago

Fibroblasts produce collagen/elastin all the time, but if all of the fibroblasts in the dermis are damaged or destroyed, I don't know what would happen. It looks like they can only reproduce through mitosis.

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duddy

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11 years ago

So you need fibroblasts to produce college? What produce fibroblasts?

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rafale09 Author

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Quote from: duddy (11 years ago)

So you need fibroblasts to produce college? What produce fibroblasts?

I don't know, that's what I'd like to find out at this point.

e.g. red blood cells are produced in the bone marrow, but what about fibroblasts?

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manoj9585

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11 years ago

Collagen is a group of naturally occurring proteins. In nature, it is found exclusively in animals, especially in the flesh and connective tissues of mammals.

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So you need fibroblasts to produce college? What produce fibroblasts?

I don't know, that's what I'd like to find out at this point.

e.g. red blood cells are produced in the bone marrow, but what about fibroblasts?

Here's what I found, in response to wounding or inflammation, increased numbers of fibroblasts are produced within tissue. (1) Fibroblasts can proliferate locally to generate new fibroblasts.

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