Elevated MMP-7 levels in patients with systemic sclerosis: Correlation with pulmonary involvement

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 770-773

  Moinzadeh, Pia ^a   Krieg, Thomas ^a   Hellmich, Martin ^a   Brinckmann, Jürgen ^b   Neumann, Elena ^c   Müller Ladner, Ulf ^c   Kreuter, Alexander ^d   Dumitrescu, Daniel ^a   Rosenkranz, Stephan ^a   Hunzelmann, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fibrosis; Matrilysin; MMP 7; Scleroderma; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; MATRILYSIN;

BLOOD SAMPLING; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CAPACITY; LUNG FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 7; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; SCLERODERMA, DIFFUSE; SCLERODERMA, LIMITED; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 80051664850     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2011.01321.x     Document Type: Letter

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