Crohn's disease (CD) represents a highly debilitating disease of difficult diagnosis and increasing incidence. Serum protein profiling of early stage Crohn's disease (ES) CD was investigated in order to improve the comprehension of the very early pathologic mechanisms and to support the difficult diagnostic procedures currently available. Inflammatory proteins and complement 3 chain C (C3c) were over-represented during ES CD, clusterin, retinol binding protein, α1-microglobulin and transthyretin were under-represented. A C3c isoform was found to be present only during ES CD. By now, lack of specific antibodies to detect isoforms made it impossible to perform alternative validation. © 2014 The Authors.
Serum protein profiling of early and advanced stage Crohn's disease / Piras, C.; Soggiu, A.; Greco, V.; Cassinotti, A.; Maconi, G.; Ardizzone, S.; Amoresano, A.; Porro, G. B.; Bonizzi, L.; Roncada, P.. - In: EUPA OPEN PROTEOMICS. - ISSN 2212-9685. - 3:(2014), pp. 48-59. [10.1016/j.euprot.2014.02.010]
Serum protein profiling of early and advanced stage Crohn's disease
Greco V.;Ardizzone S.;Amoresano A.;Bonizzi L.;
2014
Abstract
Crohn's disease (CD) represents a highly debilitating disease of difficult diagnosis and increasing incidence. Serum protein profiling of early stage Crohn's disease (ES) CD was investigated in order to improve the comprehension of the very early pathologic mechanisms and to support the difficult diagnostic procedures currently available. Inflammatory proteins and complement 3 chain C (C3c) were over-represented during ES CD, clusterin, retinol binding protein, α1-microglobulin and transthyretin were under-represented. A C3c isoform was found to be present only during ES CD. By now, lack of specific antibodies to detect isoforms made it impossible to perform alternative validation. © 2014 The Authors.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
