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Science 18 October 1963:
Vol. 142. no. 3590, pp. 386 - 387
DOI: 10.1126/science.142.3590.386
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Coliagenolytic Activity in Mammalian Bone

John F. Woods 1 and George Nichols Jr. 1

1 Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Collagen from bone was incubated with bone-cell homogenate. At the end of incubation the collagen had been partially broken down to ultrafiltrable units indicating that ferments with collagenolytic activity, which can be released by homogenization, exist in bone cells.


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