Inducible targeting of IL-13 to the adult lung causes matrix metalloproteinase- and cathepsin-dependent emphysema.

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Published in J Clin Invest on November 01, 2000

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T Zheng1, Z Zhu, Z Wang, R J Homer, B Ma, R J Riese, H A Chapman, S D Shapiro, J A Elias

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1: Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8057, USA.

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