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SUBMITTER: Piccardi B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4445323 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Piccardi Benedetta B Palumbo Vanessa V Nesi Mascia M Nencini Patrizia P Gori Anna Maria AM Giusti Betti B Pracucci Giovanni G Tonelli Paolina P Innocenti Eleonora E Sereni Alice A Sticchi Elena E Toni Danilo D Bovi Paolo P Guidotti Mario M Tola Maria Rosaria MR Consoli Domenico D Micieli Giuseppe G Tassi Rossana R Orlandi Giovanni G Perini Francesco F Marcello Norina N Nucera Antonia A Massaro Francesca F DeLodovici Maria Luisa ML Bono Giorgio G Sessa Maria M Abbate Rosanna R Inzitari Domenico D
Frontiers in neurology 20150527
<h4>Background</h4>Experimentally, metalloproteinases (MMPs) play a detrimental role related to the severity of ischemic brain lesions. Both MMPs activity and function in tissues reflect the balance between MMPs and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs). We aimed to evaluate the role of MMPs/TIMPs balance in the setting of rtPA-treated stroke patients.<h4>Methods</h4>Blood was taken before and 24-h after rtPA from 327 patients (mean age 68 years, median NIHSS 11) with acute ischemic st ...[more]