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DURING a study of the shrinkage temperature of skin collagen, normal human eye collagen was included in the control material. A measure of difference was found between the sclera, which behaved as ordinary mammalian collagen1–5, and the cornea, which showed a lower hydrothermal stability, in the sense that it shortened at a lower temperature than sclera or skin collagen.
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STRINGER, H., PARR, J. Shrinkage Temperature of Eye Collagen. Nature 204, 1307 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041307a0
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