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POSITIVE CORRELATION BETWEEN DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX AND MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES ACTIVITY IN A RAT MODEL OF COLITIS

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2014

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Luiz Gustavo de Oliveira, André Luiz da Cunha, Amaury Caiafa Duarte, Maria Christina Marques Nogueira Castañon, Júlio Maria Fonseca Chebli, Jair Adriano Kopke de Aguiar
Arquivos de Gastroenterologia

Abstract

In this study, we observed a disease activity index correlation with the degree of histopathological changes after induction of colitis, and this result may be related mainly to the increased activity of MMP-9 and mieloperoxidase.

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