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Recent studies have provided an extensive and complex description of the nature and function of the secretory products of macrophages (see review in 1). One of these secretory products is the endopeptidase that degrades mature, insoluble cross-linked elastin, among other substrates. Since the initial description of the secretion of elastinolytic activity by mouse macrophages (2), further studies have isolated and identified this proteinase and have correlated its expression with the state of macrophage activation.
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Banda, M.J., Clark, E.J., Werb, Z. (1985). Macrophage elastase: regulatory consequences of the proteolysis of non-elastin tissue substrates. In: van Furth, R. (eds) Mononuclear Phagocytes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5020-7_30
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