Table 3.

Upregulated proteins in the collagen (COL) and placebo (PLA) group showing baseline differences before the intervention.

UniProt	Gene Name	Protein Description		Fold Change (FC)
				Collagen	Placebo
Only upregulated in COL before 12 weeks
	-			-	-
Only upregulated in PLA before 12 weeks
P10636	MAPT	Microtubule-associated protein tau		-	1.63
P02144	MB	Myoglobin		-	1.71
P09493	TPM1	Tropomyosin alpha-1 chain		-	1.52