Proline-Glycine-Proline as a Potential Biomarker in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Cystic Fibrosis

Authors

• Arne Lucas ten Hoeve ¹
• Mojtaba Abdul Roda ¹
• Frank Redegeld ¹
• Gert F olkerts ¹
• James Edwin Blalock ²
• Amit Gaggar ²

¹ Division of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

² Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Abstract

Keywords

• Chemotactic factors
• Cystic fibrosis
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Extracellular matrix
• Neutrophil activation praline
• Interleukin-8 A and B
• Serine ednopeptidases