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INTRAPLEURAL LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT UROKINASE OR TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR VERSUS SINGLE-CHAIN UROKINASE IN TETRACYCLINE-INDUCED PLEURAL LOCULATION IN RABBITS

Steven Idell Texas Lung Injury Institute, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Ali Azghani Texas Lung Injury Institute, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, USA; The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, USA
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Shande Chen Department of Biostatistics, The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Kathy Koenig Texas Lung Injury Institute, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, USA
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Andrew Mazar Attenuon, LLC, San Diego, California, USA
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Lalitha Kodandapani Attenuon, LLC, San Diego, California, USA
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Khalil Bdeir Department of Pathology, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Douglas Cines Department of Pathology, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Irina Kulikovskaya Department of Pathology, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Timothy Allen Texas Lung Injury Institute, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, USA
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Pages 419-440 | Received 26 Jul 2007, Accepted 31 Aug 2007, Published online: 02 Jul 2009

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