Serum Amyloid P-Component
"Serum Amyloid P-Component" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Amyloid P component is a small, non-fibrillar glycoprotein found in normal serum and in all amyloid deposits. It has a pentagonal (pentaxin) structure. It is an acute phase protein, modulates immunologic responses, inhibits ELASTASE, and has been suggested as an indicator of LIVER DISEASE.
| Descriptor ID |
D000683
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.049.407.875 D12.776.124.050.730 D12.776.395.690
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| Concept/Terms |
Serum Amyloid P-Component- Serum Amyloid P-Component
- Amyloid P-Component, Serum
- P-Component, Serum Amyloid
- Serum Amyloid P Component
- Amyloid P Component
- P Component, Amyloid
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Serum Amyloid P-Component" by people in Profiles.
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Kumar NP, Moideen K, Nancy A, Viswanathan V, Thiruvengadam K, Sivakumar S, Hissar S, Kornfeld H, Babu S. Acute Phase Proteins Are Baseline Predictors of Tuberculosis Treatment Failure. Front Immunol. 2021; 12:731878.
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Quinton LJ, Blahna MT, Jones MR, Allen E, Ferrari JD, Hilliard KL, Zhang X, Sabharwal V, Alg?l H, Akira S, Schmid RM, Pelton SI, Spira A, Mizgerd JP. Hepatocyte-specific mutation of both NF-?B RelA and STAT3 abrogates the acute phase response in mice. J Clin Invest. 2012 May; 122(5):1758-63.
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Skinner M, Sipe JD, Yood RA, Shirahama T, Cohen AS. Characterization of P-component (AP) isolated from amyloidotic tissue: half-life studies of human and murine AP. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1982; 389:190-8.