 Prealbumin
"Prealbumin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A tetrameric protein, molecular weight between 50,000 and 70,000, consisting of 4 equal chains, and migrating on electrophoresis in 3 fractions more mobile than serum albumin. Its concentration ranges from 7 to 33 per cent in the serum, but levels decrease in liver disease.
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D011228
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.034.841.450 D12.776.124.727.450
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| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1991 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Prealbumin" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Liu YC, Reddi HV, Waheed S, Alapat D, Highsmith WE, Edmondson RD, Barlogie B, van Rhee F. A compound T60A and V122I heterozygosity in the transthyretin gene causing early onset severe cardiac amyloidosis. Amyloid. 2014 Jun; 21(2):134-5.
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Reddi HV, Jenkins S, Theis J, Thomas BC, Connors LH, Van Rhee F, Highsmith WE. Homozygosity for the V122I mutation in transthyretin is associated with earlier onset of cardiac amyloidosis in the African American population in the seventh decade of life. J Mol Diagn. 2014 Jan; 16(1):68-74.
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