alpha-antitrypsin

A glycoprotein in the serum which can inactivate protein-splitting enzymes such a TRYPSIN, elastase and collagenase. A HOMOZYGOUS hereditary deficiency of alpha-antitrypsin can cause liver disease in infancy and childhood and, rarely CIRRHOSIS of the liver and emphysema in adults.

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1]-antitrypsin is an inexpensive and quite reliable test of PLE, and is measured by determining stool volume and both stool and plasma alpha-antitrypsin concentrations.

Protein-losing enteropathy demonstrated on Tc-99m HSA

About one in 50 Americans are unable to pass along the gene that produces the protecting protein, alpha-antitrypsin, to their children.

Genetic therapy for hereditary emphysema

they have demonstrated that chemicals called oxidants, contained in cigarette smoke, can inactivate alpha-antitrypsin in the lung.

Emphysema

NESS ZIONA, Israel -- Kamada, a bio-pharmaceutical company engaged in the development, manufacturing and marketing of specialty life-saving therapeutics, announced today that it received the interim report of its phase 2-3 trial to treat Alpha-1 deficiency with its flag product, Alpha-Antitrypsin, delivered by inhalation.

Kamada Announces successful Interim Report of the Phase 2-3 Clinical Trial with its Inhaled Alpha-1 Antitrypsin