Acute phase proteins.

acute phase proteins efficacy in differential diagnosis

introduction: evaluating patient with acute scrotum is based on medical history (e.g. age), physical examination, blood tests, urine analysis and imaging studies. differential diagnosis may be difficult. efficacy of serum acute phase proteins in patients with acute scrotum was assessed in this study. materials and methods : 45 patients were recruited and allocated within three sub-groups; acute...

Acute Phase Proteins – Regulation

Acute-phase Proteins

The discovery of large amounts of C-reactive protein (CRP) in the serum of patients during the acute phase of pneumococcal pneumonia in 1930 focused interest on the plasma protein changes that accompany inflammatory states. CRP and other plasma proteins whose concentrations rose significantly under such circumstances were accordingly referred to as acute-phase proteins (APP). The subsequent rea...

Modulation of Acute Phase Proteins

From the *Division of Cell Biology, Children's Hospital, the Ina Sue Perlmutter Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115; the *Arthritis Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118; the ~Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 0211 I; and the H Microbiol...

Acute phase proteins in psoriasis.

Psoriasis is a chronic, relapsing, inflammatory and hyperproliferative skin disorder. The levels of acute phase proteins are suggested to be elevated in those patients with acute disease. The expression of selected acute phase proteins as the parameters of humoral immunity has been analyzed in 70 patients with acute psoriasis and 40 healthy controls. The aim was to evaluate the inflammatory res...