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Altered glycosylation, expression of serum haptoglobin and alpha-1-antitrypsin in chronic hepatitis C, hepatitis C induced liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma patients
Liver cirrhosis with hepatitis C viral infection (HCV-LC) causes high risk to develop hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Besides diagnosis of liver cirrhosis by biochemical test, imaging techniques, assessment of...
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Glycosylation of Acute Phase Proteins: A Promising Disease Biomarker
All diseases including autoimmune diseases, chronic liver diseases and cancer are a serious health problem worldwide. The current gold standard to assess malignant changes in cells and structural liver damage ...
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Open AccessP4.07: on the Relevance of A PPG Based Two Pulse Synthesis Model for Screening Against Coronary Artery Diseases
Arterial stiffness is an independent predictor for coronary artery diseases (CAD). Various methods to predict coronary artery involvement are known but most of them have limited applicability in large-scale po...
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Activation dependent expression of MMPs in peripheral blood mononuclear cells involves protein kinase A
Monocyte/Macrophages are integral cellular components of inflammation. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) produced by these cells play a crucial role in every aspect of inflammation. Results of the investigation...
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Chemical modification studies onCocos nucifera pollen allergens
Two highly active allergens Cn II (M r 158,000) and CnVII (M r 2900) isolated fromCocos nucifera pollen extract were treated with various protein modifying reagents in order to asc...
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Interaction andin vivo growth inhibition of Ehrlich ascites tumor cells by jacalin
Jacalin has been found to agglutinate Ehrlich ascites cells. The agglutination was inhibited by α-glycosides of D-Gal and β -D-Gal(1 → 3)-D-GalNAc suggesting that the lectin-ascites interaction was carbohydrat...
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Occurrence of an anti-Thomsen-Friedenreich-like lectin in jackfruit seeds reacting with a receptor in ant egg glycoprotein
The occurrence of an anti-Thomsen-Friedenreich-like lectin in the seeds of jackfruit and of its receptordominant disaccharide in an ant egg glycoprotein isdescribed by agar-gel precipitin reactions.
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Different precipitin reactions of theAbrus precatorius lectin
Different precipitin reactions of theAbrus precatorius plant lectin with various galactan-polysaccharides are described and compared with a number of other anti-galactose lectins from different sources.
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Long standing foreign bodies in the bronchus
Two cases of intrabronchial foreign bodies, one for seven years and another for three years have been presented. The literature on the subject has also been reviewed. In these cases the presenting symptoms and...