## Abstract The degradation of elastin, the insoluble biopolymer of tropoelastin, can lead to the production of small peptides. These elastin‐derived peptides (EDPs) are playing a key role in cellular behavior within the extracellular matrix, showing a great variety of biological effects such as ch
Characterisation of human lung elastin-derived peptides
✍ Scribed by Frank J. Maccioni; Kenneth E. Moon
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 802 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-9120
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