Elevated conversion of alpha-2-macroglobulin to the complexed form in gingival crevicular fluid from adult periodontitis patients

The broad spectrum protease inhibitor, α2‐macgrolobulin (α2M), is one of the host's principal regulators of both endogenous and exogenous proteases and is likely to have an important role in the regulation of proteolytic activity at inflammatory sites. We have determined the amount of complexed...

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