Overexpression of collagenase (MMP-1) and stromelysin (MMP-3) by pterygium head fibroblasts

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 71-80

  Li, De Quan ^a   Lee, Sao Bing ^a   Gunja Smith, Zeenat ^a   Liu, Yunqi ^a   Solomon, Abraham ^a   Meller, Daniel ^a   Tseng, Scheffer C G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; STROMELYSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN DEGRADATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FIBROBLAST; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYBRIDIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PTERYGIUM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZYMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 1; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 3; MIDDLE AGED; PTERYGIUM; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASES; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0035139375     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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