Collagen fibrils

[Aubrey de Grey]

John Scotter wrote:

> Looking through my notes the only information I could find was.."with
> aging, covalent bonds of uncertain nature form between and within
> tropocollagen units to give a very strong structure."
> 
> Is it possible anyone could build on this slightly.

Check out "glycation" in Medline.  "glycation collagen aging review" as
a search string at http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ will give you a
good basis.

Aubrey de Grey