Ribozymes that inhibit the production of
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Edita Rutkauskaite; Wolfgang Zacharias; Jörg Schedel; Ulf Müller-Ladner; Christi
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## Objective To investigate whether retroviral gene transfer of ribozymes targeting matrix metalloproteinase 1 (MMP‐1) inhibits the production of MMP‐1 in rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblasts (RASFs) and reduces the invasiveness of these cells in vivo. ## Methods MMP‐1–specific