Matrix Metalloproteinases in Tissue Remodelling and Inflammation || Matrix metalloproteinases in airways inflammation of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

✍ Scribed by Lagente, Vincent; Boichot, Elisabeth

• Book ID: 118040057
• Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 132 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 3764385855
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7643-8585-9_2

✦ Synopsis

This volume provides new advances regarding the involvement of MMPs in various diseases associated with inflammatory processes. Moreover, the recent development of selective and non selective inhibitors of MMPs give new insights in the relationship between activation of inflammatory cells and tissue remodelling and advise new therapeutics possibilities to the treatment of inflammatory disease. The volume has an international authorship and is written by leading experts in the field.