Laboratory Medicine ›› 2021, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (7): 756-760.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-8640.2021.07.017

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Mechanism and application of serum amyloid A in clinical diseases

LIU Jinyan, ZHAO Juntao, XIANG Mingjie()   

  1. Department of Clinical Laboratory,Luwan Branch,Ruijin Hospital,Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine,Shanghai 200020,China
  • Received:2019-11-01 Online:2021-07-30 Published:2021-07-26
  • Contact: XIANG Mingjie

Abstract:

Serum amyloid A(SAA) is an acute phase-reactive protein that rapidly increases in the acute phase of infection,inflammation and tissue damage,and rapidly declines during the recovery phase of the diseases. There are important links between SAA and infection caused by bacteria or viruses,atherosclerosis,tumors,transplant rejection,rheumatoid,amyloidosis and so on. This review focuses on the structure,function and determination method of the SAA superfamily and the development of mechanisms and applications of SAA and clinical diseases.

Key words: Serum amyloid A, Infection, Coronary heart disease, Tumor, Inflammation

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