• The canine copper toxicosis gene MURR1 is not implicated in the pathogenesis of Wilson disease 

      Lovicu, M.; Dessi, V.; Lepori, M. B.; Zappu, A.; Zancan, L.; Giacchino, R.; Marazzi, M. G.; Iorio, R.; Vegnente, A.; Vajro, P.; Maggiore, G.; Marcellini, M.; Barbera, C.; Kostic, V.; Farci, A. M. G.; Solinas, A.; Altuntas, B.; Yuce, A.; Kocak, N.; Tsezou, A.; De Virgiliis, S.; Cao, A.; Loudianos, G. (2006)
      Background. It has recently been demonstrated that the Wilson disease (WD) protein directly interacts with the human homolog of the MURR1 protein in vitro and in vivo, and that this interaction is specific for the copper ...
    • A probable role of copper in the comorbidity in Wilson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob's Diseases: A case report 

      Koutsouraki E., Michmizos D., Patsi O., Tzartos J., Spilioti M., Arnaoutoglou M., Tsolaki M. (2020)
      Background: To the best of our knowledgedd, there is currently no case in the literature reporting the comorbidity of Wilson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), linked through copper. Case presentation: A 44-year-old ...
    • Tryptophan-kynurenine profile in pediatric autoimmune hepatitis 

      Lytton S.D., Osiecki M., MałgorzataWoźniak, Cukrowska B., Wierzbicka A., Goliszek M., Socha P., Janczyk W., Dayanakli D., Abendroth D., Kramp S., Fechner K., Scheper T., Mahler M., Bentow C., Bogdanos D., Fuchs D., Woynarowski M. (2019)
      The impairment of regulatory T cells (Tregs) is a characteristic feature of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), and the degradation of tryptophan (Trp) to kynurenine (Kyn), by gamma interferon-induced indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase-1 ...