Early Elevation of Serum MMP-3 and MMP-12 Predicts Protection from World Trade Center-Lung Injury in New York City Firefighters: A Nested Case-Control Study

OBJECTIVE: After 9/11/2001, some Fire Department of New York (FDNY) workers had excessive lung function decline. We hypothesized that early serum matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) expression predicts World Trade Center-Lung Injury (WTC-LI) years later. METHODS: This is a nested case-control analysis o...

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Autores principales: Kwon, Sophia, Weiden, Michael D., Echevarria, Ghislaine C., Comfort, Ashley L., Naveed, Bushra, Prezant, David J., Rom, William N., Nolan, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3797818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24146820
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076099

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3797818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24146820
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076099

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