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Severe elastolysis in hereditary gelsolin (AGel) amyloidosis.
Amyloid : the international journal of experimental and clinical investigation : the official journal of the International Society of Amyloidosis - 1 Jun 2020
Koskelainen Susanna, Zhao Fang, Kalimo Hannu, Baumann Marc, Kiuru-Enari Sari
Abstract excerpt
AGel amyloidosis is a dominantly inherited systemic amyloidosis caused by mutations p.D214N or p.D214Y resulting in gelsolin amyloid (AGel) formation. AGel accumulates extracellularly in many tissues and alongside elastic fibres. AGel deposition associates with elastic fibre degradation leading to severe clinical manifestations, such as cutis laxa and angiopathic complications. We analysed elastic fibre pathology...
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