Biology of C Reactive Protein in Health and Disease
This book offers a comprehensive study of C-reactive protein (CRP) belonging to the pentraxin family, including a brief history of CRP, its structure, synthesis and evolution. Focusing on the emerging role of CRP and its clinical application in the
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Biology of C Reactive Protein in Health and Disease
Biology of C Reactive Protein in Health and Disease
Waliza Ansar • Shyamasree Ghosh
Biology of C Reactive Protein in Health and Disease
Waliza Ansar Department of Zoology Behala College Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Shyamasree Ghosh National Institute of Science Education School of Biological Sciences Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
ISBN 978-81-322-2678-9 ISBN 978-81-322-2680-2 DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2680-2
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Preface
Good science always demands independent replication of new thoughts and experimental results and desertion of accepted or the so-called theories in light of more and more reliable evidence. Failure to comply with this trend leads to a tremendous damaging bad science, as with the falsely claimed association/relations between facts, observations, and results. The progress of good science also often requires providence, to make discoveries by accident and prudence of things not sought. Work on the pentraxin proteins, like C-reactive protein (CRP) since the 1970s, has benefited from abundant scientific serendipity, leading to modern-day routine clinical use of CRP measurements and the ongoing diverse research projects to explore the pathophysiological role of CRP in various diseases, be it cardiovascular disease, prominently different cancers, rheumatoid arthritis, infectious diseases, and many others. Some emerging progress has been evolving to extrapolate the role of CRP in new field of disease biology. Works are published regarding the role of CRP in mumps, testicular diseases, and different damaging conditions and some other works that need some promine
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