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Serum Alpha 1 Antitrypsin And Pulmonary Emphysema, Anjum Shahid, Salimuddin Aziz, Sarwar J. Zuben, Anwar Ali Siddiqui, Musawir Ansari, Mohammed Anwar Waqar
Serum Alpha 1 Antitrypsin And Pulmonary Emphysema, Anjum Shahid, Salimuddin Aziz, Sarwar J. Zuben, Anwar Ali Siddiqui, Musawir Ansari, Mohammed Anwar Waqar
Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Using isoelectric focusing (lEE) and radial immunodiffusion (RID) techniques, serum samples from 100 normal healthy adults and 21 patients with pulmonary emphysema were analysed to identify varioud alpha 1 antitrypsin phenotypes and the Seru m concentrations,Ten percent of the patients had low serum values. The normal or most common genetic form, MM, is the predominant phenotype in both controls and patients (JPMA 46:102, 1996).