Transthyretin (TTR or TBPA) is a transport protein in the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid that transports the thyroid hormone thyroxine (T4) and retinol...
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Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (redirect from Transthyretin amyloidosis)
Familial amyloid polyneuropathy, also called transthyretin-related hereditary amyloidosis, transthyretin amyloidosis abbreviated also as ATTR (hereditary...
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Wild-type transthyretin amyloid (WTTA), also known as senile systemic amyloidosis (SSA), is a disease that typically affects the heart and tendons of...
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dialysis-related (Aβ2M), and hereditary and old age (ATTR and wild-type transthyretin amyloid). Diagnosis may be suspected when protein is found in the urine...
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familial transthyretin mutations, liver transplantation can provide the body with a source of normal transthyretin. By changing the source of transthyretin from...
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of transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis. It is a transthyretin-directed antisense oligonucleotide. It was developed to treat hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis...
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used for the treatment of polyneuropathy in people with hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis, a fatal rare disease that is estimated to affect...
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medication used for the treatment of the polyneuropathy of hereditary transthyretin-mediated (hATTR) amyloidosis in adults. It is a double stranded small...
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(>90%) transthyretin stabilizer, developed to mimic the protective properties of the naturally-occurring T119M mutation, to treat transthyretin amyloid...
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the quaternary structure of the protein transthyretin. In people with transthyretin amyloidosis, transthyretin falls apart and forms clumps called (amyloid)...
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hormones in circulation. It is one of three transport proteins (along with transthyretin and serum albumin) responsible for carrying the thyroid hormones thyroxine...
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(FAC), or transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) results from the aggregation and deposition of mutant and wild-type transthyretin (TTR) protein...
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hypercholesterolemia. Inotersen received FDA approval for the treatment of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis in October 2018. The application for inotersen...
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or mutation in the transthyretin (TTR) gene which is inherited. Changing just one amino-acid changes the tetrameric transthyretin proteins, resulting...
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Amyloid cardiomyopathy (redirect from Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy)
many amyloidogenic proteins, especially immunoglobulin light chain or transthyretin (TTR). It can be characterized by the extracellular deposition of amyloids...
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medication used for the treatment of nerve damage in adults with hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis. The sequence is TCTTG GTTACATGAA ATCCC, where...
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glycogen storage disease type II. In transthyretin-related hereditary amyloidosis, the liver produces a mutated transthyretin protein which has severe neurodegenerative...
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proteins decrease in inflammation. Examples include albumin, transferrin, transthyretin, retinol-binding protein, antithrombin, transcortin. The decrease of...
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Examples of specific blood proteins:[citation needed] Prealbumin (transthyretin) Alpha 1 antitrypsin (neutralizes trypsin that has leaked from the digestive...
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transthyretin amyloidogenesis-associated polyneuropathy should probably be considered first. "FAP-I" and "FAP-II" are associated with transthyretin....
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formed a partnership with Sanofi Genzyme to develop a treatment for transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis, a hereditary disease in Asia.[third-party source...
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involving RNA therapy to block the production of an abnormal form of transthyretin. Patisiran received full FDA approval in 2018 and its RNA lipid nanoparticle...
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Tafamidis (Vyndaqel, Vyndamax) Transthyretin chaperone (stabilizer) Familial amyloid polyneuropathy and other transthyretin amyloidoses 2011 2019 Voxelotor...
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the light chain protein that forms amyloid in various bodily organs. Transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis (ATTR) results from the deposition of misfolded TTR...
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the blood. Most are bound to thyroxine-binding globulin (about 70%), transthyretin (10%), and albumin (15%). Only the 0.03% of T4 and 0.3% of T3 traveling...
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Tonopah Test Range, a military installation in Nevada, United States Transthyretin, a plasma protein Trans-Tasman Resources, an Australian-owned mining...
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Tolcapone (section Transthyretin amyloidosis)
tolcapone "orphan drug status" in studies aiming at the treatment of transthyretin familial amyloidosis (ATTR). However, as of 2015[update] tolcapone was...
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Tafamidis or Vyndaqel (a kinetic stabilizer of tetrameric transthyretin) for the treatment of transthyretin amyloid diseases. This suggests that the process of...
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Chemical chaperone (section Transthyretin Amyloidoses)
trafficking of ΔF508 CFTR to the plasma membrane. Partially denatured transthyretin (TTR) can promote the formation of amyloid fibrils in cells, and this...
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diflunisal and several of its analogues have been shown to be inhibitors of transthyretin-related hereditary amyloidosis, a disease which currently has few treatment...
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