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Medicine --- Immunology --- angiogenesis --- autoimmunity --- semaphorins --- MMPs --- EMMPRIN --- TRPs --- YKL-39 --- VEGF

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Zinc-dependent matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) belong to metzincins that comprise not only 23 human MMPs but also other metalloproteinases, such as 21 human ADAMs (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain) and 19 secreted ADAMTSs (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase thrombospondin domain). The many setbacks from the clinical trials of broad-spectrum MMP inhibitors for cancer indications in the late 1990s emphasized the extreme complexity of the participation of these proteolytic enzymes in biology. This editorial mini-review summarizes the Special Issue, which includes four review articles and 10 original articles that highlight the versatile roles of MMPs, ADAMs, and ADAMTSs, in normal physiology as well as in neoplastic and destructive processes in tissue. In addition, we briefly discuss the unambiguous involvement of MMPs in wound healing.

hemagglutinin-B --- transwell co-cultures --- matrix metalloproteinases --- TNF-α --- matrix metalloproteinase --- peritoneal mesothelial cell --- gastric cancer --- metastatic dissemination --- MT4-MMP --- cancer --- diseases --- aggrecan --- aggrecanase --- ADAMTS --- cartilage --- arthritis --- MMP-2 --- MMP-9 --- inhibitor --- allodynia --- caspase-3 --- neuropathic --- pain --- dorsal root ganglion --- spinal nerve ligation --- tuberculosis --- tuberculous meningitis --- HIV-TB-associated IRIS --- extracellular matrix breakdown --- adult --- pediatric --- lung --- central nervous system --- matrix-metalloproteinase --- monocytes --- inflammation --- phagocytosis --- apoptosis --- blood sampling --- anticoagulants --- high-molecular-weight heparin --- IL-16 --- sICAM-1 --- IL-8 --- T cells --- a disintegrin and metalloproteinase --- EMMPRIN --- CD147 --- ectodomain shedding --- MMPs --- PTMs --- glycosylation --- phosphorylation --- glycosaminoglycans --- interleukin --- IL-6 --- IL-11 --- trans-signaling --- metalloproteases --- ADAM --- MMP --- meprin --- matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) --- protease --- signaling --- invasion --- chemokine --- cytokine --- proteomics --- interferon --- Agkistrodon venom --- metalloproteinase --- fibrinogen --- antithrombotic --- metabolomics --- extracellular matrix --- cytokines --- proteinases --- interstitial collagens --- wound healing

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The Special Issue entitled “Pediatric and adolescent nephrology facing the future: diagnostic advances and prognostic biomarkers in everyday practice” contains articles written in the era when COVID-19 had not yet been a major clinical problem in children. Now that we know its multifaceted clinical course, complications concerning the kidneys, and childhood-specific post-COVID pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS), the value of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in the pediatric area should be appreciated, and their importance ought to increase.

Medicine --- Clinical & internal medicine --- chronic kidney disease --- cytokines --- solitary functioning kidney --- tumor necrosis factor-like weak inducer of apoptosis --- netrin-1 --- renal tubular damage --- premature newborns --- overactive bladder --- urinary microbiome --- children --- adolescents --- cystatin C --- galectin-3 --- periostin --- primary hypertension --- arterial damage --- blood pressure --- neurogenic bladder --- myelomeningocele --- markers --- furosemide stress test --- hyperfiltration --- [IGFBP-7] × [TIMP-2] --- NGAL --- renal angina index --- renal functional reserve --- tubular damage --- tubuloglomerular feedback --- neurotrophins --- transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation --- hemopexin --- nephrotic syndrome --- HNF1B --- hyperuricemia --- PTH --- renal function --- uric acid --- FEUA --- sclerostin --- obesity --- childhood --- dental caries --- gingivitis --- kidney injury --- glomerulopathy --- glomerular injury --- alpha-1 acid glycoprotein --- urinary mRNA expression of podocyte-associated proteins --- cathepsin B --- premature neonates --- immaturity --- NT-proBNP --- cardiovascular disease --- common carotid artery intima-media thickness --- bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-2 --- bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-6 --- extracellular matrix metalloproteinases inducer (EMMPRIN) --- macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) --- tubular functional reserve --- cytokeratin-18 --- endoglin --- transforming growth factor-β1 --- renal fibrosis --- congenital obstructive nephropathy --- diabetic kidney disease --- vascular endothelial markers --- eGFR --- adenine nucleotide metabolites --- chronic renal failure --- antibiotic resistance --- Escherichia coli --- inflammatory markers --- urinary tract infection --- B2M --- cancer --- CCS --- CKD --- nephropathies --- renal toxicity --- voiding cystography --- infection --- urinary tract --- IgA nephropathy --- IgA vasculitis with nephritis --- vanin-1 --- biomarker --- urinary tract infections --- artificial intelligence --- machine learning --- medical decision support system --- n/a