collagen

IPA: kˈɑɫʌgʌn

(biochemistry) Any of more than 28 types of glycoprotein that form elongated fibers, usually found in the extracellular matrix of connective tissue.

Examples of "collagen" in Sentences

After all, we're through what you called the collagen jungle. "
"Your collagen is the same as my collagen, down to the last amino acid," said Dr. Niklason.
The cooking time — at least two hours — requires meat high in collagen, with well-exercised muscle and an agreeably strong flavor.
This marine collagen, which is cultivated from sea kelp, is an ingredient he has uniquely come upon and as such has a patent pending.
Burd DAR, Longaker MT, Adzick NS, Harrison MR, Ehrlich HP: Fetal wound healing in a large animal model: The deposition of collagen is confirmed.
For example, your hair and and your skin feel very different, but they're both made of a protein called collagen, but with different modifications.
Although some people see results immediately, the results get better over a three to six month time period, as new collagen is formed and the skin tightens.
The structure was grown using about 100,000 beads of the connective protein collagen, seeded with cells from a human liver cancer culture and tipped into a body-shaped mould.
Many pitmasters have long believed that the stall was caused by a protein called collagen in the meat being combining with water and converting to flavorful and slippery textured gelatin.