Mast Cell Regulation of Human Endometrial Matrix Metalloproteinases: A Mechanism Underlying Menstruation1

Theory and Practice of Histological Techniques

1990 • 6,957 citations

Matrix Metalloproteinases: A Review

1993 • 2,998 citations

A matrix metalloproteinase expressed on the surface of invasive tumour cells

1994 • 2,561 citations

Quantitative Zymography: Detection of Picogram Quantities of Gelatinases

1994 • 866 citations

Establishment of an immature mast cell line from a patient with mast cell leukemia

1988 • 749 citations

Autocrine or Paracrine Inflammatory Actions of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone in Vivo

1991 • 485 citations

Heterogeneity of Mast Cells and Phenotypic Change Between Subpopulations

1989 • 484 citations

Patterns of matrix metalloproteinase expression in cycling endometrium imply differential functions and regulation by steroid hormones.

1994 • 391 citations

PCR MIMICS: competitive DNA fragments for use as internal standards in quantitative PCR.

1993 • 374 citations

Synovial procollagenase activation by human mast cell tryptase dependence upon matrix metalloproteinase 3 activation.

1989 • 353 citations

Mast cell tryptase is a mitogen for epithelial cells. Stimulation of IL-8 production and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 expression.

1996 • 350 citations

Development, significance, and heterogeneity of mast cells with particular regard to the mast cell-specific proteases chymase and tryptase

1997 • 337 citations

Control of messenger RNA stability in higher eukaryotes

1996 • 315 citations

Heterogeneity of human mast cells based on cytokine content.

1995 • 308 citations

Menstruation in intraocular endometrial transplants in the Rhesus monkey

1978 • 306 citations

Human mast cells activate fibroblasts: tryptase is a fibrogenic factor stimulating collagen messenger ribonucleic acid synthesis and fibroblast chemotaxis.

1997 • 304 citations

Phenotypic Characterization of the Human Mast‐Cell Line HMC‐1

1994 • 259 citations

IMPLANTATION, MENSTRUATION AND INFLAMMATION

1986 • 244 citations

Human mast cell tryptase activates single-chain urinary-type plasminogen activator (pro-urokinase)

1994 • 237 citations

Mast cells: function and contents

1994 • 221 citations

Progesterone regulates the activity of collagenase and related gelatinases A and B in human endometrial explants.

1992 • 220 citations

Expression and localization of matrilysin, a matrix metalloproteinase, in human endometrium during the reproductive cycle

1993 • 218 citations

Mast cells, cytokines, and metalloproteinases at the rheumatoid lesion: dual immunolocalisation studies.

1995 • 197 citations

Mast cell proteinases activate precursor forms of collagenase and stromelysin, but not of gelatinases A and B

1994 • 186 citations

Matrix metalloproteinase production by cultured human endometrial stromal cells: identification of interstitial collagenase, gelatinase-A, gelatinase-B, and stromelysin-1 and their differential regulation by interleukin-1 alpha and tumor necrosis factor-alpha.

1994 • 186 citations

Matrix metalloproteinases in normal menstruation

1996 • 180 citations

A novel heparin-dependent processing pathway for human tryptase. Autocatalysis followed by activation with dipeptidyl peptidase I.

1996 • 163 citations

Mast Cell and Eosinophil Distribution and Activation in Human Endometrium throughout the Menstrual Cycle1

1995 • 159 citations

Leukocyte-endothelial cell interactions evoked by mast cells

1996 • 152 citations

The roles of tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases in tissue remodelling and cell growth.

1996 • 142 citations

Catabolism of Intact Type VI Collagen Microfibrils: Susceptibility to Degradation by Serine Proteinases

1993 • 139 citations

Tryptase, the dominant secretory granular protein in human mast cells, is a potent mitogen for cultured dog tracheal smooth muscle cells.

1995 • 131 citations

Production of Endometrial Matrix Metalloproteinases, but Not Their Tissue Inhibitors, is Modulated by Progesterone Withdrawal in anin VitroModel for Menstruation¹

1997 • 129 citations

Microarchitecture of the Human Endometrium by Scanning Electron Microscopy: Menstrual Desquamation and Remodeling

1991 • 127 citations

Expression of Messenger Ribonucleic Acid Encoding Matrix Metalloproteinases and Their Tissue Inhibitors is Related to Menstruation

1994 • 126 citations

Mast cells and matrix degradation at sites of tumour invasion in rat mammary adenocarcinoma

1986 • 121 citations

Human endometrial matrix metalloproteinase-2, a putative menstrual proteinase. Hormonal regulation in cultured stromal cells and messenger RNA expression during the menstrual cycle.

1996 • 117 citations

Immunolocalization of the matrix metalloproteinases gelatinase B and stromelysin 1 in human endometrium throughout the menstrual cycle

1996 • 116 citations

The expression of interstitial collagenase in human endometrium is controlled by progesterone and by oestradiol and is related to menstruation

1995 • 115 citations

Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases (TIMP)-1, -2 and -3 in human endometrium during the menstrual cycle

1997 • 109 citations

Ovarian steroid-modulated stromelysin-1 expression in human endometrial stromal and decidual cells.

1994 • 86 citations

Presence of immunoreactive corticotropin-releasing hormone in human endometrium.

1996 • 74 citations

Tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin-1 beta mRNA expression in HMC-1 cells: differential regulation of gene product expression by recombinant interleukin-4.

1993 • 68 citations

The extracellular matrix of the uterus, cervix and fetal membranes: synthesis, degradation and hormonal regulation

1992 • 68 citations

Mast cell products stimulate collagenase and prostaglandin E production by cultures of adherent rheumatoid synovial cells

1984 • 60 citations

Human skin tryptase: Kinetic characterization of its spontaneous inactivation

1993 • 47 citations

Host-mediated effectors of tumor invasion: role of mast cells in matrix degradation

1986 • 47 citations

Endothelin-1, one of the most potent histamine releasers in mouse peritoneal mast cells

1994 • 42 citations

Endothelin and menstruation

1996 • 40 citations

Matrix metalloproteinases and their tissue inhibitors in endometrial remodelling and menstruation

1996 • 39 citations

Biological Mechanisms Underlying the Clinical Effects of RU 486: Modulation of Cultured Endometrial Stromal Cell Stromelysin-1 and Prolactin Expression¹

1997 • 32 citations

RNA analysis using miniprep RNA in reverse transcription PCR.

1994 • 28 citations

Identification of targeting proteinase for rat α1-macroglobulin in vivo. Mast-cell tryptase is a major component of the α1-macroglobulin-proteinase complex endocytosed into rat liver lysosomes

1994 • 17 citations

Mast cells in the rheumatoid lesion--ringleaders or innocent bystanders?

1995 • 15 citations