ReviewMarine drugs2024
Mutable Collagenous Tissue: A Concept Generator for Biomimetic Materials and Devices.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Methacrylation of Fibrillar Sea Urchin Collagen: Production of Sustainable, Stable, and Functional Hydrogels.ACS omega · 2026Article
- Unifying Environmental Stress Cracking and Mechano-Sorptive Creep Under the Umbrella of Mechano-Sorptive Phenomena.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Seas of Renewal: Turning Sea Urchin Waste into Polyhydroxynaphtoquinone-Collagen Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine.Marine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Microstructure of Sea CucumberGels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- How Significant Are Marine Invertebrate Collagens? Exploring Trends in Research and Innovation.Marine drugs · 2024Review
- Feeding postures as indicators of mutable collagenous tissue in extinct echinoderms.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Unveiling putative modulators of mutable collagenous tissue in the brittle star Ophiomastix wendtii: an RNA-Seq analysis.BMC genomics · 2024Article
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- Sea Urchin Food Waste into Bioactives: Collagen and Polyhydroxynaphtoquinones fromMarine drugs · 2024Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Echinoderms (starfish, sea-urchins and their close relations) possess a unique type of collagenous tissue that is innervated by the motor nervous system and whose mechanical properties, such as tensile strength and elastic stiffness, can be altered in a time frame of seconds. Intensive research on echinoderm 'mutable collagenous tissue' (MCT) began over 50 years ago, and over 20 years ago, MCT first inspired a biomimetic design. MCT, and sea-cucumber dermis in particular, is now a major source of ideas for the development of new mechanically adaptable materials and devices with applications in diverse areas including biomedical science, chemical engineering and robotics. In this review, after an up-to-date account of present knowledge of the structural, physiological and molecular adaptations of MCT and the mechanisms responsible for its variable tensile properties, we focus on MCT as a concept generator surveying biomimetic systems inspired by MCT biology, showing that these include both bio-derived developments (same function, analogous operating principles) and technology-derived developments (same function, different operating principles), and suggest a strategy for the further exploitation of this promising biological resource.
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