TIMP-3 Expression Associates with Malignant Behaviors and Predicts Favorable Survival in HCC

The tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) are proteins that specifically inhibit the proteolytic activity of the matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). TIMP-3, the only member of the TIMPs that can tightly bind to the extracellular matrix, has been identified as a unique tumor suppressor that d...

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Main Authors: Gu, Xuefeng, Fu, Maoying, Ding, Yuqin, Ni, Huihui, Zhang, Wei, Zhu, Yanfang, Tang, Xiaojun, Xiong, Lin, Li, Jiang, Qiu, Liang, Xu, Jiaren, Zhu, Jin
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4149530/