Correlation of Circulating MMP-9 with White Blood Cell Count in Humans: Effect of Smoking

Soren Snitker; Keming Xie; Kathleen A. Ryan; Daozhan Yu; Alan R. Shuldiner; Braxton D. Mitchell; Da-Wei Gong

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066277

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Correlation of Circulating MMP-9 with White Blood Cell Count in Humans: Effect of Smoking

Soren Snitker ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Soren Snitker, Keming Xie

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Keming Xie ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Soren Snitker, Keming Xie

Affiliations Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathophysiology, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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Kathleen A. Ryan,

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Daozhan Yu,

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Alan R. Shuldiner,

Affiliations Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Geriatrics Research and Education Clinical Center, Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Braxton D. Mitchell,

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Da-Wei Gong

* E-mail: dgong@medicine.umaryland.edu

Affiliations Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Geriatrics Research and Education Clinical Center, Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Correlation of Circulating MMP-9 with White Blood Cell Count in Humans: Effect of Smoking

Soren Snitker,
Keming Xie,
Kathleen A. Ryan,
Daozhan Yu,
Alan R. Shuldiner,
Braxton D. Mitchell,
Da-Wei Gong

Published: June 25, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066277

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