The E2 protein of human papillomavirus type 8 increases the expression of matrix metalloproteinase-9 in human keratinocytes and organotypic skin cultures
✍ Scribed by Baki Akgül; Ramón García-Escudero; Christine Ekechi; Gertrud Steger; Harshad Navsaria; Herbert Pfister; Alan Storey
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 450 KB
- Volume
- 200
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0300-8584
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