MMP-12 Deficiency Attenuates Angiotensin II-Induced Vascular Injury, M2 Macrophage Accumulation, and Skin and Heart Fibrosis

The role of macrophage phenotype in vascularization of tissue engineering scaffolds

(2014) Kara L. Spiller et al.   BIOMATERIALS

A new transcriptional role for matrix metalloproteinase-12 in antiviral immunity

(2014) David J Marchant et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Endothelial Cells Recruit Macrophages and Contribute to a Fibrotic Milieu in Bleomycin Lung Injury

(2013) Heather G. Leach et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Review: Evidence That Systemic Sclerosis Is a Vascular Disease

(2013) Marco Matucci-Cerinic et al.   ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM

Protective effects of matrix metalloproteinase-12 following corneal injury

(2013) M. F. Chan et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Differential expression of embryonic epicardial progenitor markers and localization of cardiac fibrosis in adult ischemic injury and hypertensive heart disease

(2013) Caitlin M. Braitsch et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY

Macrophage biology in development, homeostasis and disease

(2013) Thomas A. Wynn et al.   NATURE

Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Induces Pro-Fibrotic/M2 Phenotype in Murine Cardiac Macrophages

(2013) Jessica Meznarich et al.   PLoS One

Animal Models of Scleroderma: Current State and Recent Development

(2013) Yoshihide Asano et al.   Current Rheumatology Reports

Increased serum levels and tissue expression of matrix metalloproteinase-12 in patients with systemic sclerosis: correlation with severity of skin and pulmonary fibrosis and vascular damage

(2012) Mirko Manetti et al.   ANNALS OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES

Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Is Involved in Cardiac Damage and Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction in Hypertensive Mice

(2012) Modar Kassan et al.   ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY

Angiotensin II induces skin fibrosis: a novel mouse model of dermal fibrosis

(2012) Lukasz Stawski et al.   ARTHRITIS RESEARCH & THERAPY

Evidence for early fibrosis and increased airway resistance in bone marrow transplant recipient mice deficient in MMP12

(2011) Kristen A. England et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LUNG CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY

The role of the renin–angiotensin system in liver fibrosis

(2011) M Kamruzzman Munshi et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Enhanced expression of ephrins and thrombospondins in the dermis of patients with early diffuse systemic sclerosis: potential contribution to perturbed angiogenesis and fibrosis

(2011) Jérôme Avouac et al.   RHEUMATOLOGY

Physiology and pathophysiology of matrix metalloproteases

(2010) T. Klein et al.   AMINO ACIDS

A four-gene biomarker predicts skin disease in patients with diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis

(2010) G. Farina et al.   ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM

Fibrocytes in health and disease

(2010) Erica L. Herzog et al.   EXPERIMENTAL HEMATOLOGY

Matrix Metalloproteinase 12-Deficiency Augments Extracellular Matrix Degrading Metalloproteinases and Attenuates IL-13-Dependent Fibrosis

(2010) S. K. Madala et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Cellular and molecular aspects of vascular dysfunction in systemic sclerosis

(2010) Maria Trojanowska   Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transitions in Development and Disease

(2009) Jean Paul Thiery et al.   CELL

Matrix metalloproteinase 12 silencing: A therapeutic approach to treat pathological lung tissue remodeling?

(2009) Nancy Garbacki et al.   PULMONARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

Thrombospondins function as regulators of angiogenesis

(2009) Paul Bornstein   Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling

Macrophage-specific metalloelastase (MMP-12) truncates and inactivates ELR+ CXC chemokines and generates CCL2, -7, -8, and -13 antagonists: potential role of the macrophage in terminating polymorphonuclear leukocyte influx

(2008) R. A. Dean et al.   BLOOD

The Effect of Imatinib (Glivec®) on Scleroderma and Normal Dermal Fibroblasts: A Preclinical Study

(2008) A. Soria et al.   DERMATOLOGY