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Mark Kromer
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
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Citations - 1263
Mark Kromer is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Matrix metalloproteinase & Matrix (biology). The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 1219 citations.
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MT1-MMP-Deficient Mice Develop Dwarfism, Osteopenia, Arthritis, and Connective Tissue Disease due to Inadequate Collagen Turnover
Kenn Holmbeck,Paolo Bianco,John J. Caterina,Susan Yamada,Mark Kromer,Sergei A. Kuznetsov,Mahesh H. Mankani,Pamela Gehron Robey,A. Robin Poole,Isabelle Pidoux,Jerrold M. Ward,Henning Birkedal-Hansen +11 more
TL;DR: The findings demonstrate the pivotal function of MT1-MMP in connective tissue metabolism, and illustrate that modeling of the soft connective tissues matrix by resident cells is essential for the development and maintenance of the hard tissues of the skeleton.