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Stroke in Icelandic patients with hereditary amyloid angiopathy is related to a mutation in the cystatin C gene, an inhibitor of cysteine proteases
Cystatin C is an inhibitor of lysosomal cysteine proteases and consists of 120 amino acids. A variant of cystatin C lacking the first NH2- terminal residues and having one amino acid substitution at position 68 forms amyloid deposits mainly in the walls of brain arteries, causing fatal strokes in Ic...
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The Rockefeller University Press
1989
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2189307/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2541223 |