Expression of metalloproteinases (MMP-1, MMP-2, and MMP-9) and their inhibitors (TIMP-1 and TIMP-2) in schistosomal portal fibrosis

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-13

  Gomez, Daniel E ^a   De Lorenzo, Mariana S ^a   Alonso, Daniel F ^a   Andrade, Zilton A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE QUILMES   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGENASE; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 2;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROSIS; GRANULOMA; HEPATIC DUCT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CELL; PORTAL VEIN; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

EID: 0032767040     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.61.9     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Bina JC, Prata A, 1983. Regressão da hepatoesplenomegalia pelo tratamento específico da esquistossomose. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 16: 213-218.
2. Mohamed-Ali Q, Doehring-Schwerdtfeger E, Abdel-Rahim IM, Schlake J, Kardoff R, Franke D, Kaiser C, Elsheikh M, Abdalla S, Schafer P, Ehrich JHH, 1991. Ultrasonographic investigation of periportal fibrosis in children with Schistosoma mansoni infection: reversibility of morbidity seven months after treatment with praziquantel. Am J Trop Med Hyg 44: 444-451.
3. Gomez DE, Alonso DF, Yoshiji H, Thorgeirsson UP, 1997. Tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases: structure, regulation and biological functions. Eur J Cell Biol 74: 111-122.
4. Andrade ZA, Peixoto E, Guerret S, Grimaud JA, 1992. Hepatic connective tissue changes in hepatosplenic schistosomiasis. Hum Pathol 23: 566-573.
5. Andrade ZA, Grimaud JA, 1986. Evolution of the schistosomal hepatic lesions in mice after curative chemotherapy. Am J Pathol 124: 59-65.
6. Cameron CR, Ganguly NC, 1964. An experimental study of the pathogenesis and reversibility of schistosomal hepatic fibrosis. J Pathol Bacteriol 87: 217-237.
7. Warren KS, 1962. The influence of treatment on the development and course of murine hepatosplenic schistosomiasis mansoni. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 56: 510-519.
8. Takiya CM, Guerret S, Porto LC, Grimaud JA, 1993. Morphological and morphometrical analysis of schistosomal granuloma degradation. Exp Toxicol Pathol 45: 121-128.
9. Andrade ZA, Grimaud JA, 1988. Morphology of chronic collagen resorption. A study of the late stages of schistosomal granuloma involution. Am J Pathol 132: 389-399.
10. Henell F, Bricsson JLE, Glaumann H, 1983. An electron microscopic study of the post-partum involution of the rat uterus: with a note on apparent crinophagy of collagen. Virchow Arch 42: 271-287.
11. Montfort I, Perez-Tamayo R, 1978. Collagenase in experimental carbon tetrachloride cirrhosis of the liver. Am J Pathol 92: 411-420.
12. Perez-Tamayo R, 1970. Collagen resorption in carrageenin granuloma. II. Ultrastructure of collagen resorption. Lab Invest 22: 142-159.
13. Hayashi T, Stetler-Stevenson WG, Fleming MV, Fishback N, Koss MN, Liotta LA, Ferrans VJ, Travis WD, 1996. Immunohistochemical study of metalloproteinases and their tissue inhibitors in the lungs of patients with diffuse alveolar damage and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Am J Pathol 149: 1241-1256.
14. Takahashi S, Dunn MA, Seifter S, 1980. Liver collagenase in murine schistosomiasis. Gastroenterology 78: 1425-1431.
15. Biempica L, Takahashi S, Biempica S, Kobayashi M, 1983. Immunohistochemical localization of collagenase in hepatic murine schistosomiasis. J Histochem Cytochem 31: 488-494.
16. Emonard H, Grimaud JA, 1989. Active and latent collagenase activity during reversal of hepatic fibrosis in murine schistosomiasis. Hepatalogy 10: 77-83.
17. Vianna MR, Gayotto LCC, Telma R, Santos M, Ferreira Alves VA, Fukushima J, Brito T, 1989. Intrahepatic bile duct changes in human hepatosplenic schistosomiasis mansoni. Liver 9: 100-109.
18. Andrade ZA, Cheever AW, 1993. Characterization of the murine model of schistosomal hepatic periportal fibrosis ("pipestem" fibrosis). Int J Exp Pathol 74: 195-202.
19. Bedi AJK, Isseroff H, 1979. Bile duct hyperplasia in mice infected with Schistosoma mansoni. Int J Parasitol 9: 401-404.