The Tensile Strength of the Healing Wound About a Week

Multiple Choice

The tensile strength of the healing wound about a week after the cut surfaces of the skin are sutured to each other is about 10% of the normal tensile strength of skin. The initial weakness of the dermis during wound healing is due to the material elaborated by fibroblasts to close the wound in a very rapid fashion. This material is

A) type I collagen
B) type II collagen
C) type III collagen
D) type V collagen
E) type VII collagen