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EXAMINATION of the chemical principles of vegetable tanning1 has led to various considerations of the nature of the bonds between tannin and collagen; to an examination of the possible ‘active sites’ of tannin fixation on the collagen chain, and to the quantitative study of tannin uptake in relation to the swelling of collagen2. The critical function of the different tannins normally present in any extract mixture in determining the quantitative and qualitative aspects of tannin affinity for collagen3 was, however, largely overlooked in work emphasizing those important aspects listed above.
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ROUX, D. Molecular Weight of Condensed Tannins as a Factor determining their Affinity for Collagen. Nature 181, 1793–1794 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811793a0
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