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Effects of surgery and chronic disease states on the concentrations and phenotype distribution of α1-acid glycoprotein: studies in patients with breast cancer and patients with chronic inflammatory disease.
International journal of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 1 Jul 2011
Hanada K, Yamanaka E, Yamamoto N, Minami H, Kawai S, Sasaki Y, Ogata H
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Although the concentration of α1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) in serum increases under some conditions, the behavior of the individual genetic variants is not well understood. Therefore, we studied the relative changes in AGP variants pre- and postoperatively in patients with cancer and patients with chronic inflammatory disease states, as well as the distribution of AGP phenotypes in a Japanese population....
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