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Protective role of the alpha-1-antitrypsin in intervertebral disc degeneration

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2021
Background Intervertebral disc degeneration is a complex disease with high prevalence. It suggests that cell death, senescence, and extracellular matrix degradation are involved in the pathogenesis. Alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT), a serine protease inhibitor,
Weikun Liu, Yanfu Wang
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Human neutrophils express the alpha 1-antitrypsin gene and produce alpha 1-antitrypsin [PDF]

Blood, 1991
The potent serine protease, neutrophil elastase (NE), is stored in neutrophil azurophilic granules, where it is available to degrade phagocytosed material and can be released by the cell to assist in tissue migration and help clear tissue debris.
R M, du Bois, J F, Bernaudin, P, Paakko, R, Hubbard, H, Takahashi, V, Ferrans, R G, Crystal   +6 more
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Gross Intrahepatic Mass Formation Predicts the Primary Site of Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma Based on Molecular Pathologic Studies

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Purpose Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (eCCA) are clinically and genetically distinct. However, the classification of perihilar cholangiocarcinoma (phCCA) with an intrahepatic tumor mass remains unclear.
Yuki Masuda, Naoto Kubota, Ryo Takemura, Yasuhito Arai, Yuta Abe, Osamu Itano, Minoru Esaki, Tatsuhiro Shibata, Yuko Kitagawa, Hidenori Ojima   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diagnosis of alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency by DNA analysis of children with liver disease

Arquivos de Gastroenterologia, 2001
Background - Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency is a genetic disorder which is transmitted in a co-dominant, autosomal form. Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency affects mainly the lungs and the liver leading, in the latter case, to neonatal cholestasis, chronic ...
De TOMMASO Adriana Maria Alves, ROSSI Cláudio Lúcio, ESCANHOELA Cecília Amélia Fazzio, SERRA Heliane Guerra, BERTUZZO Carmen Sílvia, HESSEL Gabriel   +5 more
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Pulse of inflammatory proteins in the pregnant uterus of European polecats (Mustela putorius) leading to the time of implantation [PDF]

, 2017
Uterine secretory proteins protect the uterus and conceptuses against infection, facilitate implantation, control cellular damage resulting from implantation, and supply pre-implantation embryos with nutrients.
Burchmore, Richard J.S., Kennedy, Malcolm W., Lindeberg, Heli   +2 more
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Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Substitution for Extrapulmonary Conditions in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficient Patients [PDF]

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation, 2018
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) is a genetic disorder which most commonly manifests as pulmonary emphysema. Accordingly, alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) augmentation therapy aims to reduce the progression of emphysema, as achieved by life-long weekly slow-drip infusions of plasma-derived affinity-purified human AAT.
Boris M, Baranovski, Ronen, Schuster, Omer, Nisim, Ido, Brami, Yotam, Lior, Eli C, Lewis   +5 more
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Preliminary evidence of improved liver biomarkers in adolescents with obesity and suspected metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease treated with semaglutide: A case series

JPGN Reports, EarlyView.
Abstract Metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) affects 30%–40% of youth with obesity and lacks approved pharmacologic therapies. In this single‐center retrospective case series at a tertiary care safety‐net children's hospital, we evaluated five adolescents (mean age: 17.0 years; 100% Hispanic; 60% male; mean body mass index:
Rachel Schenker, Katya Fomenko, Fotini T. Mitsinikos, Alaina P. Vidmar   +3 more
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Comparative evaluation of serum alpha-1antitrypsin levels in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma and in subjects with tobacco habit without carcinoma

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2019
Aim/Objectives: To evaluate serum levels of Alpha-1 antitrypsin in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma and compare them with that of healthy subjects with and without tobacco habits. Materials and Method: The sample of 83 subjects was divided into
Upasana S Ahuja, Nidhi Puri, Anjana Bagewadi, Vaishali Keluskar, Anshuman Ahuja, Harkanwal P Singh   +5 more
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All-atom simulations reveal how single point mutations promote serpin misfolding

, 2018
Protein misfolding is implicated in many diseases, including the serpinopathies. For the canonical inhibitory serpin {\alpha}1-antitrypsin (A1AT), mutations can result in protein deficiencies leading to lung disease, and misfolded mutants can accumulate ...
Beccara, Silvio a, Faccioli, Pietro, Gershenson, Anne, Ianeselli, Alan, Orioli, Simone, Spagnolli, Giovanni, Wang, Fang, Wintrode, Patrick L.   +7 more
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Does urinary peptide content differ between COPD patients with and without inherited alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency? [PDF]

, 2017
Differentiating between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients with normal (PiMM) or deficient (PiZZ) genetic variants of alpha-1 antitrypsin (A1AT) is important not only for understanding the pathobiology of disease progression but also ...
Carleo, Alfonso, Chorostowska-Wynimko, Joanna, Czajkowska-Malinowska, Małgorzata, Janciauskiene, Sabina, Koeck, Thomas, Mischak, Harald, Rozy, Adriana, Welte, Tobias   +7 more
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