Per Westermark
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 48 19
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 586 75 61
- E-mail:
- per.westermark@igp.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Dag Hammarskjölds väg 20
751 85 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Rudbecklaboratoriet
751 85 UPPSALA
Publications
Recent publications
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2026
- DOI for Cardiac phenotype in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis: correlations between fibril types and 99mTc-DPD uptake
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Cardiac amyloidosis after lumbar spinal stenosis surgery: a comprehensive prospective cohort study
Part of Amyloid, p. 218-225, 2025
- DOI for Cardiac amyloidosis after lumbar spinal stenosis surgery: a comprehensive prospective cohort study
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Part of Amyloid, p. 139-144, 2025
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The question of strains in AA amyloidosis
Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
- DOI for The question of strains in AA amyloidosis
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Part of Amyloid, p. 249-256, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2026
- DOI for Cardiac phenotype in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis: correlations between fibril types and 99mTc-DPD uptake
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Cardiac amyloidosis after lumbar spinal stenosis surgery: a comprehensive prospective cohort study
Part of Amyloid, p. 218-225, 2025
- DOI for Cardiac amyloidosis after lumbar spinal stenosis surgery: a comprehensive prospective cohort study
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Part of Amyloid, p. 139-144, 2025
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The question of strains in AA amyloidosis
Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
- DOI for The question of strains in AA amyloidosis
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Part of Amyloid, p. 249-256, 2024
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Changes in the amyloid editorial board members and in editor positions
Part of Amyloid, p. 85-85, 2024
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2023
- DOI for Regionalization of cell types in silk glands of Larinioides sclopetarius suggest that spider silk fibers are complex layered structures
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Part of BMC Nephrology, 2023
- DOI for The effect of high-dose vitamin D supplementation on hepcidin-25 and erythropoiesis in patients with chronic kidney disease
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Part of Amyloid, p. 213-219, 2022
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Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022
- DOI for Tissue-based diagnosis of systemic amyloidosis: Experience of the informal diagnostic center at Uppsala University Hospital
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Tissue biopsy for the diagnosis of amyloidosis: experience from some centres
Part of Amyloid, p. 8-13, 2022
- DOI for Tissue biopsy for the diagnosis of amyloidosis: experience from some centres
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AA amyloid in human food chain is a possible biohazard
Part of Scientific Reports, 2021
- DOI for AA amyloid in human food chain is a possible biohazard
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Part of Journal of Internal Medicine, p. 895-905, 2021
- DOI for Transthyretin amyloid deposits in lumbar spinal stenosis and assessment of signs of systemic amyloidosis
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Clinical ApoA-IV amyloid is associated with fibrillogenic signal sequence
Part of Journal of Pathology, p. 311-318, 2021
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Clarification on the definition of complete haematologic response in light-chain (AL) amyloidosis
Part of Amyloid, p. 1-2, 2021
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Part of Amyloid, p. 217-222, 2020
- DOI for Amyloid nomenclature 2020: update and recommendations by the International Society of Amyloidosis (ISA) nomenclature committee
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Part of Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2020
- DOI for Abdominal fat pad biopsies exhibit good diagnostic accuracy in patients with suspected transthyretin amyloidosis
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Part of Läkartidningen, 2020
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Part of Amyloid, p. 121-122, 2019
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, p. 372-376, 2019
- DOI for Transthyretin Glu54Leu-an unknown mutation within the Swedish population associated with amyloid cardiomyopathy and a unique fibril type
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Robert Kisilevsky, MD, PhD, 1937–2019
Part of Amyloid, p. 179-179, 2019
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Part of Nature Communications, 2019
- DOI for Cryo-EM fibril structures from systemic AA amyloidosis reveal the species complementarity of pathological amyloids
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Part of Nature Communications, 2019
- DOI for Cryo-EM structure of a transthyretin-derived amyloid fibril from a patient with hereditary ATTR amyloidosis
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2019
- DOI for Amyloid fibril composition within hereditary Val30Met (p. Val50Met) transthyretin amyloidosis families
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A case report of osteoarthritis associated with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis ATTRV30M
Part of Amyloid, p. 29-30, 2019
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Part of Amyloid, p. 119-120, 2019
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Part of Amyloid, p. 39-40, 2019
- DOI for The Swedish open-label diflunisal trial (DFNS01) on hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis and the impact of amyloid fibril composition
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Part of Amyloid, p. 46-53, 2018
- DOI for Reduced left atrial myocardial deformation irrespective of cavity size: a potential cause for atrial arrhythmia in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis
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Part of Amyloid, p. 213-214, 2018
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Noncerebral Amyloidoses: Aspects on Seeding, Cross-Seeding, and Transmission
Part of Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, 2018
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2018
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Part of Methods in Molecular Biology, p. 401-414, 2018
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Part of Amyloid, p. 215-219, 2018
- DOI for Amyloid nomenclature 2018: recommendations by the International Society of Amyloidosis (ISA) nomenclature committee
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Part of Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, p. 240-248, 2018
- DOI for Positron emission tomography (PET) utilizing Pittsburgh compound B (PIB) for detection of amyloid heart deposits in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR)
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Part of Amyloid, p. 142-143, 2017
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Systemic AA amyloidosis in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
Part of Protein Science, p. 2312-2318, 2017
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Seed-dependent templating of murine AA amyloidosis
Part of Amyloid, p. 140-141, 2017
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Part of Amyloid, p. 128-129, 2017
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The challenging histological diagnosis of transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis
Part of Amyloid, p. 130-131, 2017
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Part of ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, p. 368-373, 2016
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2016
- DOI for Substoichiometric inhibition of transthyretin misfolding by immune-targeting sparsely populated misfolding intermediates: a potential diagnostic and therapeutic for TTR amyloidoses
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Part of Amyloid, p. 209-213, 2016
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Electron tomography reveals the fibril structure and lipid interactions in amyloid deposits
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 5604-5609, 2016
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Part of Amyloid, p. 98-108, 2016
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Part of Amyloid, p. 26-32, 2016
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Tc-99m-DPD uptake reflects amyloid fibril composition in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis
Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, p. 17-24, 2016
- DOI for Tc-99m-DPD uptake reflects amyloid fibril composition in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis
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Part of Amyloid, p. 46-50, 2016
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Gender related differences in cardiac function in patients with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis
Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 64-65, 2015
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Part of European Journal of Medical Genetics, p. 211-215, 2015
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Part of European Journal of Human Genetics, p. 1033-1041, 2015
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2015
- DOI for Amyloid Cardiomyopathy in Hereditary Transthyretin V30M Amyloidosis - Impact of Sex and Amyloid Fibril Composition
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Part of American Journal of Pathology, p. 834-846, 2015
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Part of Modern Pathology, p. 201-207, 2015
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Eighty years of research on islet amyloidosis in Uppsala
Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, p. 117-123, 2015
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Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, p. 113-116, 2015
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Part of PLoS biology, 2014
- DOI for Carbonic Anhydrase Generates CO2 and H+ That Drive Spider Silk Formation Via Opposite Effects on the Terminal Domains
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In vitro binding of [H-3]PIB to human amyloid deposits of different types
Part of Amyloid, p. 21-27, 2014
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Online Registry for Mutations in Hereditary Amyloidosis Including Nomenclature Recommendations
Part of Human Mutation, 2014
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Nomenclature 2014: Amyloid fibril proteins and clinical classification of the amyloidosis
Part of Amyloid, p. 221-224, 2014
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Transthyretin-derived amyloidosis: Probably a common cause of lumbar spinal stenosis
Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, p. 223-228, 2014
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Part of Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, p. 740-746, 2014
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Life science applications utilizing radiocarbon tracing
Part of Radiocarbon, p. 865-873, 2013
- DOI for Life science applications utilizing radiocarbon tracing
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Part of Journal of labelled compounds & radiopharmaceuticals, 2013
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In Vivo Visualization of Amyloid Deposits in the Heart with 11C-PIB and PET
Part of Journal of Nuclear Medicine, p. 213-220, 2013
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Part of Amyloid, p. 142-150, 2013
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Life science application utilizing radiocarbon tracing
Part of Radiocarbon, p. 865-873, 2013
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Further Evidence for Amyloid Deposition in Clinical Pancreatic Islet Grafts
Part of Transplantation, p. 219-223, 2012
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Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 2325-2329, 2012
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Part of Transplantation, p. 1017-1023, 2012
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Part of Amyloid, p. 167-170, 2012
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Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 5584-5589, 2011
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Part of Amyloid, p. 91-91, 2011
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Amyloid diagnosis, subcutaneous adipose tissue, immunohistochemistry and mass spectrometry
Part of Amyloid, p. 175-176, 2011
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Amyloid detection and typing: summary of current practice and recommendations of the consensus group
Part of Amyloid : the international journal of experimental and clinical investigation : the official journal of the International Society of Amyloidosis, p. 48-50, 2011
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Part of Journal of Molecular Medicine, p. 171-180, 2011
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Signs of cross-seeding: aortic medin amyloid as a trigger for protein AA deposition
Part of Amyloid, p. 229-234, 2011
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Part of American Journal of Pathology, p. 2632-2640, 2011
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Somatostatin Receptor Subtypes in Human Type 2 Diabetic Islets
Part of Pancreas, p. 836-842, 2010
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Part of EJD. European journal of dermatology, p. 443-446, 2010
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Part of Amyloid, p. 101-104, 2010
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Fibril protein fragmentation pattern in systemic AL-amyloidosis
Part of Journal of Pathology, p. 473-480, 2009
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Part of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - BBRC, p. 846-850, 2009
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Part of PloS one, 2009
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Immunology, p. 535-540, 2009
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Amyloidose-Zentren in Europa. Das EURAMY-Projekt: [Amyloid centers in Europe. the EURAMY project]
Part of Der Pathologe, p. 124-127, 2009
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Report of five rare or previously unknown amyloidogenic transthyretin mutations disclosed in Sweden
Part of Amyloid, p. 208-214, 2009
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A father and his son with systemic AL amyloidosis
Part of Haematologica, p. 437-439, 2009
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Splenic plasma cells can serve as a source of amyloidogenic light chains
Part of Blood, p. 1501-1503, 2009
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Amyloid and Transplanted Islets Reply
Part of New England Journal of Medicine, p. 2729-2731, 2008
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Widespread amyloid deposition in transplanted human pancreatic islets
Part of New England Journal of Medicine, p. 977-979, 2008
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Unreliability of immunohistochemistry for typing amyloid deposits
Part of Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, p. 14-14, 2008
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Amyloid fibril composition is related to the phenotype of hereditary transthyretin V30M amyloidosis
Part of Journal of Pathology, p. 253-61, 2008
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Ichthyosis prematurity syndrome: a well-defined congenital ichthyosis subtype
Part of The Journal of American Academy of Dermatology, 2008
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Transthyretin and amyloid in the islets of Langerhans in type-2 diabetes
Part of Experimental Diabetes Research, p. 429274, 2008
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Systemiska amyloidoser - ny behandling gör tidig och exakt diagnos allt viktigare
Part of Läkartidningen, p. 1517-1521, 2007
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Unwinding fibril formation of medin, the peptide of the most common form of human amyloid.
Part of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - BBRC, p. 822-828, 2007
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Role of aggregated medin in the pathogenesis of thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection
Part of Laboratory Investigation, p. 1195-1205, 2007
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Amyloidogenic potential of foie gras
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 10998-11001, 2007
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A primer of amyloid nomenclature
Part of Amyloid, p. 179-183, 2007
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Germ Line Origin and Somatic Mutations Determine the Target Tissues in Systemic AL-Amyloidosis
Part of PLoS ONE, 2007
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Part of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - BBRC, p. 532-539, 2006
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Lactadherin binds to elastin -a starting point for medin amyloid formation?
Part of Amyloid, p. 78-85, 2006
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Misclassification of amyloidosis is unwarranted.
Part of Blood, 2006
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Amyloid contained in the knee joint meniscus is formed from apolipoprotein A-I.
Part of Arthritis Rheum, p. 3545-50, 2006
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Part of Diabetologia, p. 1237-46, 2006
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Part of J Sep Sci, p. 371-7, 2006
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Subcutaneous fat tissue for diagnosis and studies of systemic amyloidosis.
Part of Acta Histochem, p. 209-13, 2006
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Senile seminal vesicle amyloid is derived from semenogelin I.
Part of Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, p. 187-93, 2005
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Betungande regler för klinisk prövning står inte i proportion till patientnyttan
Part of Läkartidningen, p. 1832-1834, 2005
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Betungande regler för klinisk forskning står inte i proportion till patientnyttan
Part of Läkartidningen, p. 1832-1834, 2005
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Part of Amyloid, p. 96-102, 2005
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Part of The Internet Journal of Pathology, p. 224-232, 2005
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Part of Amyloid, p. 1-4, 2005
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A Swedish family with the rare Phe33Leu transthyretin mutation.
Part of Amyloid, p. 189-92, 2005
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Aspects on human amyloid forms and their fibril polypeptides.
Part of FEBS J, p. 5942-9, 2005
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Is aggregated IAPP a cause of beta-cell failure in transplanted human pancreatic islets?
Part of Curr Diab Rep, p. 184-8, 2005
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Purification of amyloid protein AA subspecies from amyloid-rich human tissues.
Part of Methods Mol Biol, p. 243-54, 2005
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Part of Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, p. 6098-102, 2005
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Part of Lab. Invest., p. 981-988, 2004
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Part of Acta Dermato-Venereologica, p. 24-30, 2003
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Part of Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B, p. 119, 2002
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Enhanced in vitro production of amyloid-like fibrils from mutant (S20G) islet amyloid polypeptide
Part of Amyloid, p. 242, 2001
Articles, review/survey
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Part of Amyloid, p. 159-167, 2024
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Part of Chemical Reviews, p. 1845-1893, 2021
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Transthyretin amyloidosis: an under-recognized neuropathy and cardiomyopathy
Part of Clinical Science, p. 395-409, 2017
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Part of Journal of Internal Medicine, p. 337-347, 2017
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Part of Journal of Internal Medicine, p. 153-163, 2016
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Islet Amyloid Polypeptide and Diabetes
Part of Current protein and peptide science, p. 330-337, 2013
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Localized AL amyloidosis: A suicidal neoplasm?
Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, p. 244-250, 2012
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Islet amyloid polypeptide, islet amyloid, and diabetes mellitus
Part of Physiological Reviews, p. 795-826, 2011
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Part of The FEBS Journal, p. 3918-3929, 2011
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Amyloid in the islets of Langerhans: Thoughts and some historical aspects
Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, p. 81-89, 2011
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Prion-like aggregates: infectious agents in human disease
Part of Trends in Molecular Medicine, p. 501-507, 2010
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Serum amyloid A and protein AA: molecular mechanisms of a transmissible amyloidosis
Part of FEBS Letters, p. 2685-2690, 2009
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Part of Experimental diabetes research, p. 562985, 2008
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Reflections on amyloidosis in Papua New Guinea
Part of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, p. 3701-3705, 2008
Chapters in book
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AA Amyloidosis: Pathogenesis and Targeted Therapy
Part of Annual Review Of Pathology, p. 321-344, ANNUAL REVIEWS, 2015