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.
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