February 2025 PubMed Articles

The Alpha-1 Foundation is proud to provide a monthly list of articles from researchers that have been funded by the Foundation.

Below are the top articles for February 2025:

Alpha-defensins increase NTHi binding but not engulfment by the macrophages enhancing airway inflammation in Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.

• Jungnam Lee
• Tammy Flagg-Dowie
• Mark Brantly
• Karina Serban

 Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and primary liver cancers

• Marion Bouchecareilh

Clinical and Economic Outcomes in Patients with Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency in a US Medicare Advantage Population 

• Mike Wells

Plasma Extracellular Vesicle-derived MicroRNA Associated with Human Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency-mediated Liver Disease 

• Virginia Clark
• Mark Brantly
• Nazli Khodayari

Authors reply: Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency associated with increased risks of skin cancer, leukemia, and hepatic cancer: A nationwide cohort study

• Morten Dahl

Regarding: Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency associated with increased risks of skin cancer, leukemia, and hepatic cancer: A nationwide cohort study  

• Pavel Strnad

 Novel Lobe-based Transformer model (LobTe) to predict emphysema progression in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency 

• Ariel Curiale

 Longitudinal Evaluation of Individuals with Severe Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (Pi∗ZZ Genotype) 

• Marc Miravitlles 
• Jan Stolk
• Suzanne Roche
• Virginia Clark
• Alice Turner
• Gerry McElvaney
• Pavel Strnad

Editing Approaches to Treat Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency 

• Stephen Rennard
• Humam Farah