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By the 11th century, the caliphate had splintered into a mosaic of fractious states — 26 at one point, and the Balearics became an independent emirate.
The subsequent power struggle at first split the country into two imperial courts, and then effective control of Japan was splintered for two centuries among scores of daimyo (feudal warlords).
In 1009, the caliphate splintered into a number of small kingdoms called taifas, which were constantly at war.
In both settings α-SMA levels were reduced compared to controls grown on noncoated tissue culture plastic or without ascorbic acid (see similar results in [ 47 ] ). Taken together these results suggest that the presence of collagen and the stressed to relaxed state transition of the ECM alters or dominates TGFβ1 signal transduction (see also [ 25 ] ). The corresponding reduction in α-SMA is in agreement with recent in vivo data on splintered vs. unsplintered rat wounds [ 48 ] , but differs from in vitro results on human gingival fibroblasts [ 49 ] .
Its attention to terrorism was episodic and splintered across several committees.