Increased expression of matrix metallopr
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Kenichi Ohashi; Tetsuo Nemoto; Kyoichi Nakamura; Ryoichi Nemori
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Background: The 5-year survival rate of patients with submucosal (sm) esophageal carcinoma continues to be much worse than that with intramucosal (m) lesions. the reasons are unclear, but matrix metalloproteinases (mmps) and membrane type matrix metalloproteinases (mt-mmps) are known to be invol