Serum Amyloid P-Component
"Serum Amyloid P-Component" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Amyloid P component is a small, non-fibrillar glycoprotein found in normal serum and in all amyloid deposits. It has a pentagonal (pentaxin) structure. It is an acute phase protein, modulates immunologic responses, inhibits ELASTASE, and has been suggested as an indicator of LIVER DISEASE.
| Descriptor ID |
D000683
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.049.407.875 D12.776.124.050.730 D12.776.395.690
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| Concept/Terms |
Serum Amyloid P-Component- Serum Amyloid P-Component
- Amyloid P-Component, Serum
- P-Component, Serum Amyloid
- Serum Amyloid P Component
- Amyloid P Component
- P Component, Amyloid
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Serum Amyloid P-Component" by people in Profiles.
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Increased serum amyloid a levels reflect colitis severity and precede amyloid formation in IL-2 knockout mice. Cytokine. 2000 Sep; 12(9):1337-47.
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A mouse model for serum amyloid A amyloidosis. Methods Enzymol. 1999; 309:701-16.
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Association of apolipoprotein E with murine amyloid A protein amyloid. Lab Invest. 1995 Oct; 73(4):469-75.
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Lack of association of a restriction fragment length polymorphism for serum amyloid P gene with reactive amyloidosis. Arthritis Rheum. 1989 Oct; 32(10):1325-7.