TY - GEN AU - Ahmed Mohamed Hossam Eldin Abdelaziz AU - Azza Ezz Elarab , AU - Reda Abd El rahman , TI - Immunohistochemical expression of matrix metalloproteinase mmp - 9 in chronic and aggressive periodontitis / PY - 2006/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Mohamed Hossam Eldin Abdelaziz , KW - Matrix metalloproteinase KW - MMP - 9 N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Oral and Dental Medicine - Department Of Periodontology; Issued also as CD N2 - All components of ECM are degraded by matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) , a family of zinc - dependent neutral endopeptidases (Birkedal - Hansen et al , 1993) Two types of MMPs are required for dissolution of interstitial collagen : collagenases and gelatinases (Mao D et al , 1999) Collagenase - 1 (MMP - 1) , collagenase - 2 (MMP - 8) and collagenase - 3 (MMP - 13) are the principal secreted neutral proteinases that initiate degradation of native fibrillar collagens of type I , II , III and VThey all cleave fibrillar collagens , which are further degraded by gelatinases (Kahari and Saarialho - Kere , 1999) UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -