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Variations in the hydrothermic contraction of the rat skin as a function of the age of the animals] |
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| Authors: | J C Allain S Bazin M Le Lous A Delaunay |
| Abstract: | The tension developed in Rat skin by hydrothermal shrinkage is modified with ageing of the animals: the temperature of maximum tension decreases from birth to 1 month, then very slowly increases with age. At higher temperatures than that of maximum tension a relaxation occurs very rapidly in young Rats and in not yet senescent adult skins. These modifications appeared to be related to those of the nature of the intermolecular collagen cross-links with ageing. |
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