The plasminogen-activating system in hep
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H Leyland; J Gentry; M J Arthur; R C Benyon
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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directly by activating the matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), Urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) generates interstitial collagenase, and stromelysin. 4,5 Between them plasmin, a process inhibited by plasminogen-activator these enzymes are capable of degrading most matrix compoinhibitor (PAI)-1 and