Methods CRP and SAA were systematically measured during the follow-up of consecutive attack-free FMF outpatients seen in a pediatric and an adult French reference center. Dissociations between CRP and SAA were defined by normal CRP (<5mg/L) and elevated SAA (group A), or elevated CRP and normal SAA (<10mg/L) (group B). Demographic data, genotype, clinical characteristics of FMF, and treatment w...

Serum amyloid A (SAA) concentrations correlate well with C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations. However, SAA is sometimes raised in disease when CRP is normal. This appears to occur more often in certain diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, primary biliary cirrhosis and chronic active hepatitis. SAA concentrations did not distinguish between cancer with and without metastases as previously ...

Serum amyloid A (SAA) is an acute phase protein with cytokine-like and chemotactic properties, that is markedly up-regulated during various inflammatory conditions. Several receptors, including FPRL-1, TLR2, TLR4, RAGE, class B scavenger receptors, SR-BI and CD36, have been identified as SAA receptors. This study provides new evidence that SR-BII, splice variant of SR-BI, could function as an S...

Acute-phase serum amyloid A (A-SAA) is a major component of the acute-phase response. A sustained acute-phase response in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with increased joint damage. A-SAA mRNA expression was confirmed in all samples obtained from patients with RA, but not in normal synovium. A-SAA mRNA expression was also demonstrated in cultured RA synoviocytes. A-SAA protein was iden...

Serum amyloid A (SAA), a classical acute-phase protein, is produced predominantly by hepatocytes in response to injury, infection, and inflammation. It has been shown that SAA primes leukocytes and induces the expression and release of proinflammatory cytokines. Here, we report that SAA induces NO production by murine peritoneal macrophages. Using specific inhibitors, we showed that NO producti...

We studied here the effect of the acute phase protein serum amyloid A (SAA) on the oxidative burst of neutrophils. Incubation of neutrophils with SAA increased the rate of oxygen uptake and the production of reactive oxygen species of neutrophils activated with opsonized zymosan (OZ). The increment in the neutrophil oxidative burst was dependent on SAA concentration in the range of 3-33 microg ...

We consider the expected residual minimization method for a class of stochastic quasivariational inequality problems SQVIP . The regularized gap function for quasivariational inequality problem QVIP is in general not differentiable. We first show that the regularized gap function is differentiable and convex for a class of QVIPs under some suitable conditions. Then, we reformulate SQVIP as a de...

Diagnostic techniques based on biomolecules have application potential that can be realized in many fields, such as disease diagnosis, bioprocess imaging, food/beverage industries, and environmental pollutant imaging. Successful surface immobilization of is critical to increasing the stabilization, sensitivity, selectivity used bioassay systems. Nanofibers are good candidates for owing advantag...

BACKGROUND SELDI-TOF mass spectrometry (MS) is a high-throughput proteomic approach with potential for identifying novel forms of serum biomarkers of arthritis. METHODS We used SELDI-TOF MS to analyze serum samples from patients with various forms of inflammatory arthritis. Several protein profiles were collected on different Bio-Rad Laboratories ProteinChip arrays (CM10 and IMAC-Cu(2+)) and ...

Background—Serum amyloid(SAA) is a sensitive marker of an acute inflammatory state. Like high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), SAA has been linked to atherosclerosis. However, prior studies have yielded inconsistent results, and the independent predictive value of SAA for coronary artery disease (CAD) severity and cardiovascular events remains unclear. Methods and Results—A total of 705...