Chapter 38 - Part A: The Matrix Is the Machine: Extracellular Matrix and Mechanotransduction
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In this BoardsCast episode, we jump back to Tobias Chapter 38 — Tissues of the Musculoskeletal System — and rebuild the way you think about connective tissue from the ground up. The central idea: The extracellular matrix is not the packaging. The matrix is the machine. Musculoskeletal tissues don’t behave the way they do simply because of the cells inside them. Their mechanical behavior comes from what the extracellular matrix is made of and how those materials are organized. We b...
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