A protein found in between the cells of healthy cartilage that soaks up water in bristle-like branches so that the proteoglycan can cushion the cartilage cells, and they can withstand compression force and bounce back to their original shape.
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Proteoglycan Term Timeline in Your Inner Fish
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Chapter 7: Adventures in Bodybuilding
...its cells, with lots of collagen filling in and an incredibly specialized molecule called a proteoglycan that can fill up with water to cushion the cartilage cells to withstand force. Like...
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...to the earliest bodies, almost all animals with a body seem to have collagen and proteoglycans in between their body cells. The earliest creatures with bodies would have had to make...
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...cell communication. Expanding her research on microbes, King then found primitive versions of collagen and proteoglycan on the surfaces of different microbes that specialize in invading and infecting other cells.
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