TY - BOOK AU - Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed AU - Abir Zakaria , AU - Badawy Elkholy , AU - Gaafar Mohamed Ragab , TI - Serum matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP9) in patients with behcet's disease disease and its relation to disease activity and vascular affection / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed , KW - Behcet's disease KW - Disease activity KW - Matrix metalloproteinases N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - Objectives : Basic and clinical studies had revealed a strong correlation between matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) particularly MMP-9 and the formation of abdominal aortic aneurysms. In addition previous studies had clearly shown that MMP-9 plays an important role in the pathogenesis of vasculitis characterized by aneurysm formation such as kawasaki disease temporal arteritis and Takayasu arteritis UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -