Matrix metalloproteinases are an integral component of the organ-specific tissue microenvironment, primarily participating in regulation state integrative-buffer metabolic environment, remodeling, morphogenesis and immunogenesis, genesis pathological vascular diseases. Therefore, issues related to matrix metalloproteinase activity under altered gravity a matter high urgency for space biomedicin...

BACKGROUND Breakdown of extracellular matrix (ECM) is one of the important hallmarks of cancer progression which facilitates the invasion of tumoral cells to the surrounding tissue. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) can degrade various components of the ECM and basement membrane. The aim of this study was to determine the role of matrix metalloproteinases-9 protein in the biologic behavior of or...

Objective: Proteins of the matrix metalloproteinases family play a vital role in extracellular matrix maintenance and basic physiological processes in tissue homeostasis. The function and activities of matrix metalloproteinases in response to compression therapies have yet to be defined. Here, a swine model of hypertrophic scar was used to profile the transcription of all known 26 matrix metall...

1996. Basement membrane and repair of injury to peripheral nerve: Defining a potential role for macrophages, matrix metalloproteinases, and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-1.

In the course of lung cancer, normal cells are transformed into cancerous ones, and changes occur in microenvironment, including extracellular matrix (ECM), which is not only a scaffold for cells, but also reservoir cytokines, chemokines growth factors. Metalloproteinases (MMPs) among elements that enable ECM remodeling. The publication focuses on problem gene expression MMP2, MMP9 tissue inhib...