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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An enzyme found especially in pancreatic juice that catalyzes the hydrolysis of elastin.

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  • noun An endopeptidase enzyme involved in the breakdown of elastin.

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  • noun a pancreatic enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of elastin

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Examples

  • ATT is produced by the liver and its job it to prevent an enzyme found in the lungs, called elastase, which breaks down the elastic fibers, called elastin, that make up the airways and the alveolar walls.

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  • ATT is produced by the liver and its job it to prevent an enzyme found in the lungs, called elastase, which breaks down the elastic fibers, called elastin, that make up the airways and the alveolar walls.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • P. aeruginosa with important contributions from individual virulence factors such as elastase and alginate [6].

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Thomas Bjarnsholt et al. 2010

  • From each plate (representing an isolate) one colony was selected and grown as a overnight culture in either ox-broth (for elastase activity) or AB trace minimal medium containing 3 mM glucose (32) at 37°C with shaking (rhamnolipid and signal molecules production).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Thomas Bjarnsholt et al. 2010

  • The concomitant development of QS malfunction significantly correlated with the reduced production of rhamnolipids and elastase and with the occurrence of mutations in the regulatory genes lasR and rhlR.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Thomas Bjarnsholt et al. 2010

  • Neutrophils from healthy volunteers were incubated with DFP (2.5 mM), and neutrophil elastase (NE) activity; hypodiploid DNA formation; caspases-3 and -8 processing and activity; exteriorization of phosphatidylserine (PS); oxidative burst activity and hydrogen peroxide release were measured.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Jennfier Tsang 2010

  • Sugawara S, Tada H, Takada H, Shimauchi H, et al. (2000) Cleavage of CD14 on human gingival fibroblasts cocultured with activated neutrophils is mediated by human leukocyte elastase resulting in down-regulation of lipopolysaccharide-induced IL-8 production.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hans-Christian Ingerslev et al. 2010

  • Cryz SJ, Iglewski BH (1980) Isolation and characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO mutant that produces altered elastase.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Thomas Bjarnsholt et al. 2010

  • Isolates were characterized with regard to QS signal molecules, alginate, rhamnolipid and elastase production and mutant frequency.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Thomas Bjarnsholt et al. 2010

  • The supernatant was either dialyzed against sterile water (for elastase activity) or sterile filtered using 0.2 µm pore filters (16543; Sartorius), frozen and kept for further analysis.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Thomas Bjarnsholt et al. 2010

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