Digesting the remodeled heart: Role of lysosomal cysteine proteases in heart failure

Hypertension

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 830-831

  Sam, Flora ^a   Siwik, Deborah A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN B; CATHEPSIN K; CATHEPSIN S; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LYSOSOME ENZYME; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; UROKINASE;

CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; EDITORIAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME RELEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; LYSOSOME; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; LYSOSOMES; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 33750226200     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000242332.19693.e4     Document Type: Editorial

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