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What does elastase mean?

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Noun
  1. An endopeptidase enzyme involved in the breakdown of elastin.
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We found that both trypsin and elastase digestion eliminated counterbend formation.
These implicate the proteolytic enzyme elastase and cell surface adhesion molecules, and provide a basis for the investigation of potential novel therapies.
Big, long, expensive programs against enzymes like elastase and thrombin went on year after year, but no one could get the things to quite work well enough.
Second, it blocked the mucociliary-slowing effect of human neutrophil elastase administered to the animals.
Uroisolate PU7, was found to elicit the maximum virulence factors elaborating extracellular enzymes, protease, elastase, phospholipase C, haemolysin and pyochelin.
Additional indentation tests were performed at the nanometer and micrometer scales on native articular cartilage to study the effects of the enzymes cathepsin D and elastase.

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