Transthyretin-derived amyloid deposition
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Yo-ichi Takei; Takahisa Gono; Masahide Yazaki; Shu-ichi Ikeda; Toshihiko Ikegami
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) is a form of hereditary generalized amyloidosis. Liver tissue explanted from FAP patients has normal structure and function, except for the production of amyloidogenic variant transthyretin (TTR), and domino liver transplantation (DLT) using grafts from FAP pati