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Serum MMP-9 is elevated in children with asthma.
Molecular medicine reports - 1 Feb 2012
Hong Zhu, Lin Ya-Mei, Qin Xi, Peng Jiang-Long
Abstract excerpt
This study explored the association of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) serum concentration and gene polymorphism with childhood asthma. Serum levels of MMP-9 were determined by sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in 65 children with asthma (cases) and 68 healthy children (controls), and the -1562C/T polymorphism in MMP-9 was detected by polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment-length...
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