Methods of macromicroscopy and morphometry have been used to study sphincter zone glands by 54 total preparations of a urinary bladder received from corpses of people of different ages without any pathology of organs of urine-genital apparatus. The glands were painted by 0, 05% methylene blue solution and were investigated with the application of stereomicroscopic-binocular microscope MBS-9. Microscopic sections of sphincter zone glands in the thickness 5-7 microns were stained with hematoxylin-eosin, azure-2-eosin and with hematoxylin-picrofucsin by Van-Gizon technique. Sphincter zone glands are arranged firmly without dependence on age, length and width of initial department of glands of these zones. In postnatal ontogenesis size indices of sphincter zone glands have been essentially changed. These indices are equal for left and right ureter sphincter zone glands
Shadlinskiy V.B., Guseynova G.A., Mamedov N.M. Morphological characteristics of sphincter zone glands of urinary bladder in different stages of postnatal ontogenesis // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2011, pp. 357-361

The relationship between the degree of hydroxylation and oxidative deamination of e-NH2-groups of lysine and hydroxylysine in collagen, and the thermal stability of this protein’s sub-molecular structures in the skin of Wistar rats in their postnatal ontogeny was in vitro studied. It has been shown that, rising towards the age of 3 months, the content of free e-NH2-groups in collagen continuously remains constant, while that of free aldehyde groups (COH-groups), starting from 1-month steadily decreases with age. Accordingly, intermolecular cross-linking in collagen’s sub-molecular structures is reduced during the period between 1 to 3 months, and afterwards continuously increases up to 24 months of age. The content of hydroxyproline in collagen is continuously reduced in postnatal ontogenesis. The combined effect of both effects leads to a decrease in the thermal stability of collagen sub-molecular structures in the skin during the period from 1 to 3 months, and subsequently rises up to 24 months old.
El-ta'alu A B, Persky, Eu E, Bulankina Na I, Kot Yu G, Kot Ek V, Ponomarenko Al N, Kostina Ta V. The Role of Collagen Processing in Age-related Changes in the Thermo-stability of Connective Tissue Macromolecule - Collagen . WebmedCentral BIOCHEMISTRY 2011;2(11):WMC002392