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SUBMITTER: Harkness LM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5706579 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Harkness Louise Margaret LM Weckmann Markus M Kopp Matthias M Becker Tim T Ashton Anthony Wayne AW Burgess Janette Kay JK
Journal of cellular and molecular medicine 20170613 12
The extracellular matrix (ECM) creates the microenvironment of the tissue; an altered ECM in the asthmatic airway may be central in airway inflammation and remodelling. Tumstatin is a collagen IV-derived matrikine reduced in the asthmatic airway wall that reverses airway inflammation and remodelling in small and large animal models of asthma. This study hypothesized that the mechanisms underlying the broad asthma-resolving effects of tumstatin were due to autocrine remodelling of the ECM. Neutro ...[more]