Attallah kappas biography of mahatma
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Endocrine-gene Interactions in the Hereditary Liver Disease, Acute Intermittent Porphyria
Kappas, Attallah
A broad program of laboratory and clinical studies of hepatic heme metabolism in humans was initiated by Attallah Kappas (1926- ) when he established the Laboratory of Pharmacology at The Rockefeller University Hospital in 1967.
Kappas, Attallah.
Laboratory research involved studies on key enzymes in heme synthesis, utilization and catabolism in the liver with a principal clinical focus on the hereditary and acquired disorders of the heme pathway, known as the porphyrias — particularly Acute Intermittent Porphyria (AIP), a genetic liver disease whose disabling neurologic symptoms may become lethal.
The Rockefeller Hospital with its unique clinical and research resources was critical for the conduct of these studies and for the complex care of porphyria patients.
Kappas was interested in endocrine-hepatic interactions, and noted that patients with AIP commonly tended to be female, and
