Collagenase and gelatinase activities in
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Bakowska, J.; Adamson, I. Y. R.
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Basement membrane degradation can be indicative of tissue injury, but the process may also release matrix-bound cytokines to stimulate cell regeneration. To investigate this process, acute lung injury was induced in rats by intratracheal bleomycin and animals were killed from 3 days to 8 weeks later