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SUBMITTER: Ordonez AA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6601699 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ordonez Alvaro A AA Pokkali Supriya S Sanchez-Bautista Julian J Klunk Mariah H MH Urbanowski Michael E ME Kübler André A Bishai William R WR Elkington Paul T PT Jain Sanjay K SK
The Journal of infectious diseases 20190101 4
Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) degrade extracellular matrix and are implicated in tuberculosis pathogenesis and cavitation. In particular, MMP-7 is induced by hypoxia and highly expressed around pulmonary cavities of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected C3HeB/FeJ mice. In this study, we evaluated whether administration of cipemastat, an orally available potent inhibitor of MMP-7, could reduce pulmonary cavitation in M. tuberculosis-infected C3HeB/FeJ mice. We demonstrate that, compared with unt ...[more]