Atorvastatin attenuating down-regulation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma in preventing cardiac hypertrophy of rats in vitro and in vivo.
Sendai virus infection up-regulates trypsin I and matrix metalloproteinase-9, triggering viral multiplication and matrix degradation in rat lungs and lung L2 cells.
Hyperoxia decreases matrix metalloproteinase-9 and increases tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase-1 protein in the newborn rat lung: association with arrested alveolarization.
Expression of epidermal growth factor receptor, apomucins, matrix metalloproteinases, and p53 in rat and human cholangiocarcinoma: appraisal of an animal model of cholangiocarcinoma.
In the present study we investigated the expression of 92-kDa gelatinase (MMP-9) in spinal cord from animals with adoptive transfer experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (AT-EAE), using a semiquantitative competitive reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay.
Characterization of a glomerular epithelial cell metalloproteinase as matrix metalloproteinase-9 with enhanced expression in a model of membranous nephropathy.
Effect of all-trans retinoic acid on renal expressions of matrix metalloproteinase-2, matrix metalloproteinase-9 and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 in rats with glomerulosclerosis.
Femoral AVF resulted in a sixfold increase in blood flow in the fistula iliac vein and a gradual, but significant, increase in the thickness of the intima and media and marked up-regulation of MMP-2 and MMP-9, down-regulation of TIMP-4, as well as degradation of collagens I and III.