Abnormalities of the Extracellular Degradation of Collagen Type I in Essential Hypertension

Laviades, Concepción; Varo, Nerea; Fernández, Javier; Mayor, Gaspar; J. Gil, Marı́a; Monreal, Ignacío; Dı́ez, Javier

doi:10.1161/01.cir.98.6.535

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Abnormalities of the Extracellular Degradation of Collagen Type I in Essential Hypertension

Published in Circulation • Aug 11, 1998

Authors:

Concepción Laviades

Nerea Varo

Javier Fernández

Abstract

BACKGROUND: This study was designed to investigate whether collagen type I degradation is altered in patients with essential hypertension and whether this alteration could be related to disturbances in the serum matrix metalloproteinase pathway of collagen degradation. A second aim of the study was ...

Subject

Medicine

Internal medicine

Matrix metalloproteinase

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