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Serum levels of matrix metalloproteinases -1,-2,-3 and -9 in thoracic aortic diseases and acute myocardial ischemia

BACKGROUND: Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) constitute a family of zinc-dependent proteases (endopeptidases) whose catalytic action is the degradation of the extracellular matrix components. In addition, they play the major role in the degradation of collagen and in the process of tissue remodeling...

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Autores principales: Karapanagiotidis, Georgios T, Antonitsis, Polychronis, Charokopos, Nicholas, Foroulis, Christophoros N, Anastasiadis, Kyriakos, Rouska, Efthymia, Argiriadou, Helena, Rammos, Kyriakos, Papakonstantinou, Christos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2774681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19886986
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-59