Quantification of serum elastase inhibitory activity in patients with pulmonary emphysema with and without alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency

• Gerard Orriols ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered first authors.

  Affiliations Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron/ Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Cristina Aljama ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered first authors.

  Affiliation Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron/ Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

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• Francisco Rodriguez-Frias,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Basic Sciences, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, Clinical Biochemistry Research Group, Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain, Liver Unit, Hospital Universitari Vall d´Hebron, Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

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• Pablo-Gabriel Medina,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

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• Roser Ferrer-Costa,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliations Clinical Biochemistry Research Group, Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8925-3172

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• Galo Granados,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron/ Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1902-1835

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• Alexa Nuñez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron/ Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

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• Ane López-González,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron/ Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

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• Gerardo Ruiz-Satelinas,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Liver Unit, Hospital Universitari Vall d´Hebron, Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

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• Marc Miravitlles ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marcm@separ.es

  Affiliation Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron/ Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9850-9520

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• Miriam Barrecheguren ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  ¶‡ MB and CE contributed equally to this work and should be considered senior authors.

  Affiliation Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron/ Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

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• Cristina Esquinas

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MB and CE contributed equally to this work and should be considered senior authors.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Mental Health and Maternal and Child Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain

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