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A Pilot Study to Investigate the Balance between Proteases and ?1-Antitrypsin in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid of Lung Transplant Recipients.

ABSTRACT: : The neutrophilic component in bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS, the main form of chronic lung rejection), plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis and maintenance of the disorder. Human Neutrophil Elastase (HNE), a serine protease responsible of elastin degradation whose action is counteracted by ?1-antitrypsin (AAT), a serum inhibitor specific for this protease. This work aimed to investigate the relationship between HNE and AAT in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALf) from stable lung transplant recipients and BOS patients to understand whether the imbalance between proteases and inhibitors is relevant to the development of BOS. To reach this goal a multidisciplinary procedure was applied which included: (i) the use of electrophoresis/western blotting coupled with liquid chromatography-mass spectrometric analysis; (ii) the functional evaluation of the residual antiprotease activity, and (iii) a neutrophil count.

SUBMITTER: Cagnone M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6480715 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A Pilot Study to Investigate the Balance between Proteases and α1-Antitrypsin in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid of Lung Transplant Recipients.

Cagnone Maddalena M Piloni Davide D Ferrarotti Ilaria I Di Venere Monica M Viglio Simona S Magni Sara S Bardoni Anna A Salvini Roberta R Fumagalli Marco M Iadarola Paolo P Martinello Sabrina S Meloni Federica F

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<b>:</b> The neutrophilic component in bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS, the main form of chronic lung rejection), plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis and maintenance of the disorder. Human Neutrophil Elastase (HNE), a serine protease responsible of elastin degradation whose action is counteracted by α1-antitrypsin (AAT), a serum inhibitor specific for this protease. This work aimed to investigate the relationship between HNE and AAT in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALf) from stable ...[more]

PMID: 30781848

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A Pilot Study to Investigate the Balance between Proteases and ?1-Antitrypsin in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid of Lung Transplant Recipients.

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A Pilot Study to Investigate the Balance between Proteases and α1-Antitrypsin in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid of Lung Transplant Recipients.

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