Article
Differences in elastase-binding activity of alpha 1-protease inhibitor and alpha 2-macroglobulin for asthma patients and control subjects with various alpha 1-protease inhibitor phenotypes.
Clinical chemistry - 1 Apr 1993
Gaillard M C, Reichberg S B, Nogueira C M, Kilroe-Smith T A
Abstract excerpt
Forty-two adult patients with asthma and 30 control subjects were investigated for elastase-binding capacities of alpha 1-protease inhibitor and alpha 2-macroglobulin in plasma. The binding activities of alpha 1-protease inhibitor and alpha 2-macroglobulin in asthmatic patients with the M phenotype for the alpha 1-protease inhibitor differed in their relationship to the values in control subjects with the same...
Topics
- Adult
- Alleles
- Asthma
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Pancreas
- Pancreatic Elastase
- Phenotype
- alpha 1-Antitrypsin