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BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2012, 12:15Effects of SP-C mutation in vitro
Mutations to the gene encoding Surfactant protein C (SP-C) are implicated in interstitial lung disease; the A116D mutation impairs processing of proSP-C in vitro, leading to altered cell viability, surfactant lipid composition and activation of immune cells.
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2012, 12:6Biomarkers for CAP
Patients with a severe course of community-aquired pneumonia (CAP) exhibit increased levels of interleukin 6, 10 and lipopolysaccharide-binding protein, however the predictive power of these factors for a severe course of pneumonia is lower than that of CRB-65.
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