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Acidic Mammalian Chitinase and the Eye: Implications for Ocular Inflammatory Diseases

Chitinases have an important role in the defense of organisms against chitin-containing parasites. An acidic mammalian chitinase (AMCase) has been detected in epithelial cells in lung tissue samples taken from patients with asthma as well as in conjunctival epithelium of patients with inflammatory o...

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Autores principales: Bucolo, Claudio, Musumeci, Maria, Musumeci, Salvatore, Drago, Filippo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3144442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21811466
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2011.00043