Tendon Tissue Repair in Prospective of Drug Delivery, Regenerative Medicines, and Innovative Bioscaffolds

Figure 1

Hierarchical organization of type I, II, III, V, and XI, fibrillar collagens, and basic structural framework of tendon tissue. The triple helical structure of collagen is composed of 3-α chains each consisting of 1,000 amino acids rich in proline and glycine. Reproduced with permission from reference [22].