PROTEASES: Potential Role in Health and Disease

Heparin on the Inhibition **of Thrombin by ?2Macroglobulin.- The Involvement of Plasmatic and Fibrinolytic Systems in Idiopathic Glomerulonephritis (GN) 2.- The Effect of Aprotinin on Platelet Function, Blood Coagulation and Blood Lactate Level in Total Hip Replacement - a Double Blind Clinical Trial.- Proteases and Lung.- Interaction of Granulocyte Proteases with Inhibitors in Pulmonary Diseases.- Leukoproteinases and Pulmonary Emphysema: Cathepsin G and other Chymotrypsin-Like Proteinases Enhance the Elastolytic Activity of Elastase on Lung Elastin.- Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS): Experimental Models with Elastase and Thrombin Infusion in Pigs.- Proteases and Arthritis.- Interactions of Granulocyte Proteases with Inhibitors in Rheumatoid Arthritis.- Quantitation of Human Leukocyte Elastase, Cathepsin G, ? -2-Macroglobulin and ?-1-Proteinase Inhibitor in Osteoarthrosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovial Fluids.- Plasma Levels of Inhibitor Bound Leukocytic Elastase in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients.- a2M-Pasebic Assay: a Solid Phase Immunosorbent Assay to Characterize Alpha2-Macroglobulin - Proteinase Complexes and the Proteinase Bindings-Capacity of Alpha2-Macroglobulin.- Role of Alpha2-Macroglobulin: Proteinase Complexes in Pathogenesis of Inflammation: 'F' a2M but not's' a2M Induces Synovitis in Rabbits after Repeated Intra-Articular Administration.- Hypercatabolism.- Enzyme-Linked Immunoassay for Human Granulocyte Elastase in Complex with ?1-Proteinase Inhibitor.- Proteinases and their Inhibitors in Septicemia Basic Concepts and ClinicalImplications.- Proteolytic Activity in Patients with Hypercatabolic Renal Failure.- Release of Granulocyte Neutral Proteinases in Patients with Acute and Chronic Renal Failure.- Changes in Components of the Plasma Kallikrein-Kinin and Fibrinolytic Systems Induced by a Standardized Surgical Trauma.- Endotoxins and Coagulation Parameters in Patients with Traumatic Haemorrhagic- and Bacteriotoxic Shock.- Studies on Pathological Plasma Proteolysis in Severely Burned Patients using Chromogenic Peptide Substrate Assays: A Preliminary Report.- Changes in Components of the Plasma Protease Systems Related to Course and Outcome of Surgical Sepsis.- Pancreatitis.- Role of Proteases in the Development of Acute Pancreatitis.- On the Potential Role of Trypsin and Trypsin Inhibitors in Acute Pancreatitis.- Studies on the Kallikrein-Kinin System in Plasma and Peritoneal Fluid during Experimental Pancreatitis.- The Influence of the Kallikrein-Kinin System in the Development of the Pancreatic Shock.- Proteases and Muscle Function.- Proteolytic Enzymes and Enhanced Muscle Protein Breakdown.- Ca2-Activated Proteinases, Protein Degradation and Muscular Dystrophy.- Muscle Cathepsin D Activity, and RNA, DNA and Protein Content in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients.- Enhanced Muscle Protein Degradation and Amino Acid Release from the Hemicorpus of Acutely Uremic Rats.- Enhanced Muscle Protein Catabolism in Uremia.- Catabolic Stress on Intracellular Amino Acid Pool.- Rhabdomyolysis: a Clinical Entity for the Study of Role of Proteases.