Collagenase Production by Lymphokine-Activated Macrophages
- 24 January 1975
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 187 (4173) , 261-263
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.163038
Abstract
Macrophages incubated with products (lymphokines) secreted by stimulated spleen cells produced collagenase. Active lymphokines were obtained both from mitogen- and antigen-stimulated lymphocytes. These observations suggest that the degradation of collagen in chronic inflammatory lesions may be caused by macrophage collagenase.Keywords
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