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Abstract
Malnutrition diseases in infancy and childhood
represent a major intetnational economic and public health
problem. 1n Qur country, protein energy malnutrition
·PoE.M.” represents 47.3% of malnutrition diseases (Arab
R,epublic of Egypt” 1979l.
T~e effects of malnutrition on t~e buman tissues
have been studied to a limited extent. The effect on
the liver has been s,tu(lied by Goodhart and Shill1973j •
The data indi,cate thOit in malnutrition, the deoxyribonucleic
acid In A) and p~otein synthesis are reduced
directly or $e~ondary to a change in t~e ribonucleic acid
(RNA) metabolism in tissues of different organs.
The alphal-~ntitrypsin is a glycoprotein synthesized
by the liver of normal persons who at€!: homozygous for
a mutant gene ,(Schultz et aL, 1966t Rueppers, 1972) 0
It is an acute phase reactant and is tbought to function
as a major control prot.;!in!l9ainst the tissue-damaging
effecl:c-s of both endogenous and exogenous enzymes (Tala:mo,
Since information on the level of alpha1-antitrypsin
in plasma of children suffering from P.E.M. is scanty,
this work was planned in order to study the possible
changes in pl.!l.slIIa alpha1-antitrYP2in in different forms
of P.E.N.