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Plasma platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase deficiency is associated with atherosclerotic occlusive disease in japan.
Journal of vascular surgery - 1 Aug 2000
Unno N, Nakamura T, Kaneko H, Uchiyama T, Yamamoto N, Sugatani J, Miwa M, Nakamura S
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PURPOSE: Plasma platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase (PAF-AH) is known to catalyze platelet-activating factor, thereby inactivating its inflammatory function. Deficiency of this enzyme is caused by a missense (G(994)-->T) in exon 9 of the plasma PAF-AH gene. In this study, we investigated a...
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