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n. - Protease produced in the kidney that converts plasminogen to plasmin and so initiates fibrinolysis.

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  • "For instance, platelets might deliver an enzyme called urokinase to selectively disintegrate blood clots."
  • UW researchers learned that, inside some advanced plaques, macrophages that overproduce a protein-digesting enzyme known as urokinase into aged, atherosclerotic mice.
  • In a mouse study, Dickek and his team transplanted bone marrow containing macrophages that overproduce a protein-digesting enzyme known as urokinase into aged,...
  • The first is a magnetic nanoparticle designed to target a molecule known as urokinase plasminogen activator receptor.
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