Acute Myocardial Infarction and Pulmonary Diseases Result in Two Different Degradation Profiles of Elastin as Quantified by Two Novel ELISAs.

Elastin is a signature protein of the arteries and lungs, thus it was hypothesized that elastin is subject to enzymatic degradation during cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. The aim was to investigate if different fragments of the same protein entail different information associated to two diffe...

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Main Authors: Helene Skjøt-Arkil, Rikke E Clausen, Lars M Rasmussen, Wanchun Wang, Yaguo Wang, Qinlong Zheng, Hans Mickley, Lotte Saaby, Axel C P Diederichsen, Jess Lambrechtsen, Fernando J Martinez, Cory M Hogaboam, Meilan Han, Martin R Larsen, Arkadiusz Nawrocki, Ben Vainer, Dorrit Krustrup, Marina Bjørling-Poulsen, Morten A Karsdal, Diana J Leeming
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3689773?pdf=render