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Disease lung disease
Phenotype C0221757|aat deficiency
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PubMedID- 20695558 (57) aat deficiency often leads to lung diseases, and clinical trials have been reported where patients are given aat infusions, which showed beneficial effects.
PubMedID- 22252449 The results presented in this study describe the initial proof-of-concept and optimization of a combinatorial therapeutic approach for the treatment of both liver and lung disease present in patients with aat deficiency.
PubMedID- 22723858 We studied both intracellular accumulation and defective secretion of aat in our cell models since these respectively relate to the major pathogenic drivers of the liver and lung disease associated with aat deficiency.
PubMedID- 24129227 Evidently, as serum haat is essential for the treatment of lung disease in haat deficiency,23 our work falls short in demonstrating therapeutic levels of haat, and additional studies are needed.

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