Differential expression of matrix-metalloproteinase-1 and -2 genes in normal and fibrotic human liver.

Isolation of biologically active ribonucleic acid from sources enriched in ribonuclease

1979 • 22,482 citations

Matrix metalloproteinases and their inhibitors in connective tissue remodeling

1991 • 3,309 citations

Transforming growth factor beta modulates the expression of collagenase and metalloproteinase inhibitor.

1987 • 1,243 citations

Transforming Growth Factors β1 and α in Chronic Liver Disease

1991 • 655 citations

Human fibroblast collagenase. Complete primary structure and homology to an oncogene transformation-induced rat protein.

1986 • 645 citations

Transforming growth factor beta mRNA increases during liver regeneration: a possible paracrine mechanism of growth regulation.

1988 • 483 citations

Regulation of gene expression in adult rat hepatocytes cultured on a basement membrane matrix

1988 • 470 citations

Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of 72-kDa gelatinase/type IV collagenase by transforming growth factor-beta 1 in human fibroblasts. Comparisons with collagenase and tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase gene expression

1991 • 461 citations

Comparison of human stromelysin and collagenase by cloning and sequence analysis

1986 • 443 citations

Human neutrophil collagenase. A distinct gene product with homology to other matrix metalloproteinases.

1990 • 406 citations

Maintenance of Differentiated Phenotype of Cultured Rat Hepatic Lipocytes by Basement Membrane Matrix

1989 • 353 citations

Fat-storing cells as liver-specific pericytes. Spatial dynamics of agonist-stimulated intracellular calcium transients.

1992 • 338 citations

Is Cirrhosis of the Liver Experimentally Produced by Cc14 An Adequate Model of Human Cirrhosis?

1983 • 320 citations

Structure of the human type IV collagenase gene.

1990 • 310 citations

Transforming growth factor-beta 1 up-regulates type IV collagenase expression in cultured human keratinocytes

1991 • 307 citations

In situ hybridization for procollagen types I, III and IV mRNA in normal and fibrotic rat liver: Evidence for predominant expression in nonparenchymal liver cells

1989 • 281 citations

Transforming growth factors beta 1 and beta 2 are differentially expressed in fibrotic liver disease.

1991 • 266 citations

Histologic Spectrum of Alcoholic Liver Disease

1986 • 258 citations

Cellular Sources of Collagen and Regulation of Collagen Production in Liver

1990 • 197 citations

Purification and characterization of a bone metalloproteinase that degrades gelatin and types IV and V collagen

1985 • 195 citations

Lipocytes from normal rat liver release a neutral metalloproteinase that degrades basement membrane (type IV) collagen.

1989 • 177 citations

Cellular localization of type I III and IV procollagen gene transcripts in normal and fibrotic human liver.

1990 • 173 citations

Regulation of the expression of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases and collagenase by retinoids and glucocorticoids in human fibroblasts.

1987 • 146 citations

Collagenase activity in experimental hepatic fibrosis

1974 • 146 citations

Secretion of 72 kDa type IV collagenase/gelatinase by cultured human lipocytes. Analysis of gene expression, protein synthesis and proteinase activity

1992 • 131 citations

Mammalian collagenase increases in early alcoholic liver disease and decreases with cirrhosis

1982 • 111 citations

The gelatinolytic activity of human skin fibroblast collagenase.

1982 • 105 citations

Tumor-promoting phorbol esters and cell proliferation stimulate secretion of basement membrane (type IV) collagen-degrading metalloproteinase by human fibroblasts.

1985 • 96 citations

Liver Collagenase in Murine Schistosomiasis

1980 • 89 citations

Collagenase in experimental carbon tetrachloride cirrhosis of the liver.

1978 • 87 citations

Monocyte procollagenase and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases. Identification, characterization, and regulation of secretion.

1987 • 79 citations

Matrix Degradation in the Liver

1990 • 73 citations

Lysyl Oxidase and Collagenase in Experimental Acute and Chronic Liver Injury

1982 • 64 citations

Collagenolytic activity in experimental cirrhosis of the liver

1987 • 54 citations

Direct measurement of neutral collagenase activity in homogenates from baboon and human liver

1981 • 47 citations

Active and latent collagenase activity during reversal of hepatic fibrosis in murine schistosomiasis

1989 • 39 citations

Radioimmunoassay of soluble and insoluble collagenases in fibrotic liver

1984 • 16 citations