Up-regulation of elastase in acute wounds of healthy aged humans and chronic venous leg ulcers are associated with matrix degradation

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 281-288

  Herrick, Sarah ^a   Ashcroft, Gillian ^a,b   Ireland, Grenham ^a   Horan, Michael ^b   McCollum, Charles ^b   Ferguson, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG ULCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; WOUND HEALING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FIBRONECTINS; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; REFERENCE VALUES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VARICOSE ULCER; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0030880539     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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