[More interestingly, the use of these animals has led to the discovery of unexpected and contradictory roles (both potentially pro- and antifibrotic) for Ang II, for ECM degrading enzymes matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) and tissue plasminogen activators (PAs), for plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1), and for the adhesion molecule osteopontin (OPN) in obstructive nephropathy.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE