Type V collagen in scar tissue regulates the size of scar after heart injury

Tomohiro Yokota, Jackie McCourt, Feiyang Ma, Shuxun Ren, Shen Li, Tae-hyung Kim, Yerbol. Z Kurmangaliyev, Samad Ahadian, Rohollah Nasiri, Thang Nguyen, Marvin Haw, Yonggang Zhou, Rimao Wu, Abraham Rodriguez, Whitaker Cohn, Yibin Wang, Julian Whitelegge, Sergey Ryazantsev, Alireza Khadamhosseini, Michael A. Teitell, Eric Chiou, David Birk, Amy C. Rowat, Rachelle H. Crosbie, Matteo Pellegrini, Marcus Seldin, Aldons J. Lusis, Arjun Deb

Friday, July 3, 2020
Published in Cell
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30807-2
Electron microscopy images showing a healthy scar containing collagen type 5 with scar fibers smoothly arranged in parallel (left) and unhealthy scar containing no collagen type 5 with a disorganized architecture with disarray of scar fibers (right).