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Alpha-1-antitrypsin in Plasma Exosomes and Pericardial Fluid Exosomes Are Associated With Severity of Rheumatic Heart Disease
2022-01-31
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Rheumatic heart is an autoimmune sequel of pharyngitis and rheumatic fever that leads to permanent heart valves damage, especially the mitral valves. The mitral valves, which are responsible for the binding of auto-antibodies during immune response generation, leads to valves scarring and eventually mitral valve dysfunction. Recently, exosomes (EXOs), the nano-sized-vesicles, which rang...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a2d91e74-4a88-59f8-8343-fa71c8ff9c5c
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1274664/v1
