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Knockdown of Z Mutant Alpha-1 Antitrypsin In Vivo Using Modified DNA Antisense Oligonucleotides.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2017
Aghajan Mariam, Guo Shuling, Monia Brett P
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Alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) is a serum protease inhibitor, mainly expressed in and secreted from hepatocytes, important for regulating neutrophil elastase activity among other proteases. Various mutations in AAT cause alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD), a rare hereditary disorder that results in liver disease due to accumulation of AAT aggregates and lung disease from excessive neutrophil elastase activity. PiZ...
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