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Karina A Serban, MD : Research

Critical Care Medicine Specialist, Pulmonologist (Lung Specialist)

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Research at a glance

Top areas of exploration

  • Pulmonary Emphysema , 12 publications
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive , 11 publications
  • alpha 1-Antitrypsin , 10 publications
  • alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency , 9 publications

Research activity

43 publications

745 citations

Why is this important?

Active clinical trials

My publications

43 publications

2026

The Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Z-allele associates with sarcopenia in the UK Biobank.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

PubMed • Publisher's site

2026

Polymerized Z-α-1 antitrypsin leads to lung injury in a murine model of emphysema.

JCI insight

PubMed • Publisher's site

2026

Use of the Wnt/β-catenin Activator Lithium Is Associated with Less Emphysema.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

PubMed • Publisher's site

2026

Alpha-defensins promote macrophage inflammatory activation via RNF31 signaling.

Genes & genomics

PubMed • Publisher's site

2025

Neutrophil-derived extracellular vesicles in the plasma of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficient individuals reveal pro-inflammatory metabolic and transcriptomic signatures.

Extracellular vesicle

PubMed • Publisher's site