Background: Aortic abdominal aneurysm (AAA) represents a common chronic degenerative
disease of the aortic wall. Chronic inflammation and enzymatic degradation of elastic …

Rupture of the ventricular free wall is a leading cause of death in patients with acute
myocardial infarction (MI). There are a number of risk indicators that are associated with …

Matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) is an enzyme with proteolytic activity against matrix
proteins, particularly basement membrane constituents. A single nucleotide polymorphism …

Purpose: Polymorphisms, such as a guanine inserted at position-1607 in the promoter
region of human matrix metalloprotenase 1 (MMP-1) or a C-1562T substitution in the MMP-9 …

Abstract DESPITE THE CATASTROPHIC consequence of ruptured intracranial aneurysms,
very little is understood regarding their pathogenesis, and there are no reliable predictive …

OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized that patients with intracranial cerebral aneurysms (IAs)
harbor a molecular defect in the process responsible for maintaining arterial integrity …

Cervical cancer is common among women all over the world. Although infection with high-
risk types of human papillomavirus (HPV) has been identified as the primary cause of …

Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) has been reported to be expressed in various
inflammatory disorders including human T cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) associated …

OBJECTIVE: There are several lines of evidence suggesting that matrix metalloproteinases
(MMPs), particularly MMP-9, are involved in the pathogenesis of intracranial aneurysms …

Object Anecdotal evidence exists for at least two subpopulations of intracranial saccular
aneurysms; those that form rapidly and rupture when small and those that enlarge slowly …