Biomedical Engineering Reference
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The diversity of in vitro models, animal models, and human studies have led
to conflicting results regarding the importance of various components of the
inflammatory response. However, there is a cogent proof that NE is an early
step in a proteinase cascade, which leads to a local proteinase-antiprotei-
nase imbalance, causing tissue damage.
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