Sentences with phrase «mmps allow»

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Tumours spread with the help of enzymes called matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), which destroy the connective tissue between cells and organs, allowing tumour cells to break out of the original site and enter new ones.

(a) MMP - 2 represented by little scissors is an enzyme that cleaves the extracellular matrix and allows cancer to metastasize to other tissues.

(29) This has led to the hypothesis that the great majority of such cells are destroyed over the lifetime by innate immunity, and that the specific senescent cells that do accumulate with aging are precisely those who had variants that allow MMP overexpression, in a kind of «one - off,» very temporally - extended kind of selection process.

MMPs have the ability to degrade the extracellular matrix and allow tumors to infiltrate tissue.