Macrophage migration inhibitory factor induces MMP-9 expression: implications for destabilization of human atherosclerotic plaques
- 31 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Atherosclerosis
- Vol. 178 (1) , 207-215
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2004.08.030
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