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With the exception of serum MMP-2, which was not elevated over normal, serum levels of all of the other MMPs and TIMPs were elevated to varying degrees, and were not predictive of erosive disease.
This chemokine belongs to the CC chemokine family and stimulates Coll I production both by lung fibroblasts taken from areas of inflammation [ 26 ] and in kidneys that suffer from crescentic nephritis [ 45 ] . The former investigators reported that MCP-1 increases collagen accumulation not by decreasing the levels of the collagenase MMP-1, but by stimulating the production of TGFβ1, a well-known stimulator of collagen expression and expression of TIMPs, the natural inhibitors of MMPs.
A further degree of regulation of MMP activity is afforded by the family of inhibitors: tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) [ 28].