Background: The aim of the study was to longitudinally evaluate association between MMP-2, MMP-9, TIMP-1 and chest radiological findings in COVID-19 patients. Methods: patients were evaluated based on their hospital admission (baseline) three months after discharge (T post) stratified into ARDS non-ARDS groups. As a control group, healthy donors (HD) enrolled. Results: At baseline, compared HD ...

Background & Objective:  Matrix metalloproteinases-9 (MMP-9) is one of the most important enzymes to breakdown extracellular matrix which plays a major role in tumor invasion and metastasis. This study aimed to determine tumor MMP-9 expression in non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) and whethe...

It is not fully elucidated whether the restoring of normal glucose metabolism after successful simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPK) improves vascular wall morphology and function in type 1 diabetic (T1D) patients. Therefore, we compared arterial stiffness, assessed by pulse wave velocity (PWV), carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), biomarkers calcification T1D patients SPK or kidn...

development of phytotherapies aimed at angiogenesis inhibition, in combination with classical anti-cancer therapies, is among the most intensively studied approaches for treatment of cancer. epidemiological and animal studies have indicated that consumption of allium species like shallot is associated with a reduced risk of cancer development. as a continuation of our efforts to study and chara...