muscle
• compound mutant mice show a 45% reduction in tendon stiffness and a 29% reduction in tensile modulus relative to wild-type
• the severity of stiffness reduction increases with the loss of each functional lumican allele in a lumican dose-dependent fashion
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skeleton
• compound mutant mice show a 45% reduction in tendon stiffness and a 29% reduction in tensile modulus relative to wild-type
• the severity of stiffness reduction increases with the loss of each functional lumican allele in a lumican dose-dependent fashion
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