Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 17th, 2005
"Proteases exert control over cell behavior and affect many biological processes by making proteolytic modification of regulatory proteins," researchers in California explained.
"Alpha1-antitrypsin (AAT) is a serpin, the primary function of which is to regulate the activity of neutrophil/leukocyte elastase," noted W. Li and coauthors at the Burnham Institute in La Jolla. "Insufficient antiprotease activity because of AAT deficiency in the lungs is a contributing factor to early-onset emphysema."
"We recently discovered that AAT...
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