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…ility. 2. Materials and methods 2.1. Isolation and purification of monomeric Type I collagen Monomeric Type I rat tail tendon collagen was obtained by acid extraction from Sprague–Dawley rats (Pel-Freez Biologicals, Rogers, AR) following a procedure adapted from Silver and Trelstad [28]. Briefly, rat tail tendons were extracted with the aid of auto- claved pliers and dissolved in 10 mM HCl for 4