This work was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30640084, 30471617, 30872331) and National Science Technology Pillar Program in the Eleventh Five-year Plan (No. 2008BAI59B02).
Background Matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1) plays an important role in atherosclerosis. This study was to examine expression of MMP-1 mRNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of patients with systemic ...