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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Blood Proteins > Acute-Phase Proteins > Serum Amyloid A Protein
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Amyloid > Amyloidogenic Proteins > Serum Amyloid A Protein
Macromolecular Substances > Multiprotein Complexes > Amyloid > Amyloidogenic Proteins > Serum Amyloid A Protein

Preferred term

Serum Amyloid A Protein  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Amyloid A Precursor
  • Amyloid A Protein Related Serum Component
  • Amyloid A Protein-Related Serum Component
  • Amyloid Protein AA Precursor
  • Amyloid Protein SAA
  • Amyloid-Related Serum Protein (SAA)
  • Amyloid Serum Protein SAA
  • Serum Amyloid A
  • Serum Amyloid Protein A
  • Serum A Related Protein

Scope note

  • An ACUTE PHASE REACTION protein present in low concentrations in normal sera, but found at higher concentrations in sera of older persons and in patients with AMYLOIDOSIS. It is the circulating precusor of amyloid A protein, which is found deposited in AA type AMYLOID FIBRILS.

History note

  • 2005(1979)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000685

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