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Amyloid: Toward terminology clarification Report from the Nomenclature Committee of the International Society of Amyloidosis by Westermark, Per, Benson, Merrill D, Buxbaum, Joel N, Cohen, Alan S, Frangione, Blas, Ikeda, Shu-Ichi, Masters, Colin L, Merlini, Giampaolo, Saraiva, Maria J, Sipe, Jean D

“…The modern nomenclature of amyloidosis now includes 25 human and 8 animal fibril proteins. To be included in the list, the protein has to be a major fibril…”
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A primer of amyloid nomenclature by Westermark, Per, Benson, Merrill D., Buxbaum, Joel N., Cohen, Alan S., Frangione, Blas, Ikeda, Shu-Ichi, Masters, Colin L., Merlini, Giampaolo, Saraiva, Maria J., Sipe, Jean D.

“…The increasing knowledge of the exact biochemical nature of the localized and systemic amyloid disorders has made a logical and easily understood nomenclature…”
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Amyloid Fibril Protein Nomenclature - 2002 by Westermark, Per, Benson, Merrill D, Buxbaum, Joel N, Cohen, Alan S, Frangione, Blas, Ikeda, Shu-ichi, Masters, Colin L, Merlini, Giampaolo, Saraiva, Maria J, Sipe, Jean D

“…The Nomenclature Committe met at the IX International Symposium on Amyloidosis in Budapest, July 2001. Members present were Merrill Benson, Maria Saraiva, Jean…”
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Brain Trust. The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow Disease and Alzheimer's Disease by Cohen, Alan S.

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Social Support Web-Based Resources for Patients with Chronic Pain by Polomano, Rosemary C., Droog, Nicole, Purinton, Matthew C. P., Cohen, Alan S.

“…The authors performed an electronic search of websites that address psychosocial issues in pain management identified over 5 million sites. A search limited to…”
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Review: History of the Amyloid Fibril by Sipe, Jean D., Cohen, Alan S.

“…Rudolph Virchow, in 1854, introduced and popularized the term amyloid to denote a macroscopic tissue abnormality that exhibited a positive iodine staining…”
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Total and capillary fingertip blood flow in Raynaud's phenomenon by Coffman, J D, Cohen, A S

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Liver Transplantation: An Effective Treatment For Familial ATTR Amyloidosis by Benson, Merrill D., Buxbaum, Joel N., Cohen, Alan S., Frangione, Bias, Ikeda, Shu-Ichi, Masters, Colin L., Merlini, Giampaolo, Saraiva, Maria J., Sipe, Jean D., Westermark, Per, Lewis, W. David

“…It has now been fifty years since the first reported case of Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy (FAP) was described by Andrade in Portugal.1 Decades worth of…”
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Proteins of the systemic amyloidoses by Cohen, A S

“…Significant advances were made this year in the understanding of serum amyloid A isotypes and in the definition of different amyloid light-chain proteins…”
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Electron Microscopic Observations on a Fibrous Component in Amyloid of Diverse Origins by COHEN, ALAN S, CALKINS, EVAN

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Sensitivity and specificity of the echocardiographic features of cardiac amyloidosis by Falk, Rodney H., Plehn, Jonathan F., Deering, Thomas, Schick, Edgar C., Boinay, Paul, Rubinow, Alan, Skinner, Martha, Cohen, Alan S.

“…Thirty-one patients with documented cardiac amyloidosis were compared to 39 control subjects with left ventricular hypertrophy to determine specific…”
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Diagnosis of amyloidosis by abdominal fat aspiration. Analysis of four years' experience by Duston, M A, Skinner, M, Shirahama, T, Cohen, A S

“…Abdominal fat aspiration samples from 443 consecutive patients were examined for amyloid after Congo red and hematoxylin staining. Of the aspirates from 83…”
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The 1982 revised criteria for the classification of systemic lupus erythematosus by Tan, E M, Cohen, A S, Fries, J F, Masi, A T, McShane, D J, Rothfield, N F, Schaller, J G, Talal, N, Winchester, R J

“…The 1971 preliminary criteria for the classification of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were revised and updated to incorporate new immunologic knowledge…”
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Beta 2 microglobulin serum levels and prediction of survival in AL amyloidosis by Zerbini, Cristiano A F, Anderson, Jennifer J, Kane, Kelly A, Ju, Shyr-Te, Campistol, Jose M, Simms, Robert W, Cohen, Alan S, Skinner, Martha

“…To study the relation between beta 2 microglobulin (beta 2M) and survival in AL amyloidosis, we measured the serum level of beta 2M in 80 patients with AL…”
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Clinical aspects of amyloidosis, including related proteins and central nervous system amyloid by Cohen, A S

“…In the beta/A4 protein of Alzheimer's disease, on chromosome 21, three mutations at the same locus have been described (Val 717 Ile, Val 171 Phe, and Val 171…”
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Bleeding Manifestations in 100 Patients With Amyloidosis by Yood, Robert A, Skinner, Martha, Rubinow, Alan, Talarico, Lilia, Cohen, Alan S

“…Focal or generalized hemorrhage is a commonly encountered clinical problem in patients with amyloidosis. In 100 patients with amyloidosis, 41 patients…”
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Advances in amyloidosis by Cohen, A S, Jones, L A

“…Major advances of the past year in the amyloidoses include a better understanding of the polymorphism of the acute-phase reactant serum amyloid A protein and…”
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IMMUNOLOGIC STUDIES ON A PROTEIN EXTRACTED FROM HUMAN SECONDARY AMYLOID by CATHCART, E S, COMERFORD, F R, COHEN, A S

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New Frontiers in the Study of Amyloidosis by Cohen, Alan S, Skinner, Martha

“…Twenty-three years ago, when an extensive review of amyloidosis was published in the Journal , the disease was still regarded as very rare. 1 In a lifetime of…”
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Netter's Concise Neurology by Cohen, Alan S.

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