"alpha-Defensins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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DEFENSINS found in azurophilic granules of neutrophils and in the secretory granules of intestinal PANETH CELLS.
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D023084
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.644.050.200.050 D12.776.543.695.054.200.050
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| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "alpha-Defensins" by people in Profiles.
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Alpha-defensins: risk factor for thrombosis in COVID-19 infection. Br J Haematol. 2021 07; 194(1):44-52.
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Evaluation of alpha defensin, IL-1 receptor antagonist, and IL-18 levels in COVID-19 patients with macrophage activation syndrome and acute respiratory distress syndrome. J Med Virol. 2021 04; 93(4):2090-2098.
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Defensin 5 for prevention of SARS-CoV-2 invasion and Covid-19 disease. Med Hypotheses. 2020 Oct; 143:110244.
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Human Intestinal Defensin 5 Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Invasion by Cloaking ACE2. Gastroenterology. 2020 09; 159(3):1145-1147.e4.
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Distinctive Roles and Mechanisms of Human Neutrophil Peptides in Experimental Sepsis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Crit Care Med. 2018 09; 46(9):e921-e927.
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Low-Copy Number Polymorphism in DEFA1/DEFA3 Is Associated with Susceptibility to Hospital-Acquired Infections in Critically Ill Patients. Mediators Inflamm. 2018; 2018:2152650.
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A meta-analysis of synovial biomarkers in periprosthetic joint infection: Synovasure™ is less effective than the ELISA-based alpha-defensin test. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2018 Oct; 26(10):3039-3047.
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Upregulation of alveolar neutrophil enzymes and long pentraxin-3 in human chronic lung allograft dysfunction subtypes. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2018 06; 155(6):2774-2776.e2.
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Plasma levels of alarmin HNPs 1-3 associate with lung dysfunction after cardiac surgery in children. BMC Pulm Med. 2017 Dec 28; 17(1):218.
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a-Defensin point-of-care test for diagnosis of prosthetic joint infections: neglected role of laboratory and clinical pathologists. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2017 Nov 27; 56(1):19-24.