Echinoderms and medical research

Echinoderms and medical research

Connective tissue: A graduate student in biology huge capacity of sea cucumber to increase the size of his body and then shrink back to its normal size, how sea cucumber can change the size of his body? All this is due to a connective tissue which tissue that connects the organ tissues in the body, supported and surrounded by.

There is a similarity between the connective tissue of the sea cucumber and connective tissue in humans; as containing fibers of connective tissue protein called collagen, and collagen in the human component fixed in the tissue, the researcher found Zolgt and other researchers that the collagen in the connective tissue of echinoderms is fixed, sliding forward and backward , when it is made up of protein molecules in the internal structure of sliding over each other, and the sea cucumber body is soft and flexible. The cells can secretion of sea cucumber proves collagen and prevent it from sliding and this gives the hardness of the internal structure, and it is not mobile.

Ill connective tissue: it was the hope of researcher Zolgt the studies and the ability of sea cucumber energizes the body and of expansion is to enable researchers from the ill-treatment of connective tissue of the human person, and this includes disorders Ehlers syndrome Donlos and incomplete skeletal configuration and Marfan syndrome.

People with Ehlers syndrome Donlos have abnormal connective tissue and brittle, leading to problems in the joints and weakness in the internal organs. In the case of non-completion of the proper formation of the bones of the body is not able to produce collagen adequately, or produces bad kind of him, leading to fragile bones break quickly. And people who have Marfan syndrome have a solid connective tissue, leading to skeletal deformities and weakness in the blood vessels.

By studying the connective tissue in echinoderms such as sea cucumber researchers approached the success in the treatment of diseases of weakness that hinders the freedom of movement of the joints as a result of connective tissue diseases.