Properdin, a Positive Regulator of Complement Activation, Is Released from Secondary Granules of Stimulated Peripheral Blood Neutrophils

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 4444-4451

  Wirthmueller, Urs ^a   Dewald, Beatrice ^a   Thelen, Marcus ^a   Schäfer, Martin K H ^b   Stover, Cordula ^c   Whaley, Keith ^c   North, Jonathan ^c   Eggleton, Paul ^d   Reid, Kenneth B M ^d   Schwaeble, Wilhelm J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE COMPLEMENT PATHWAY C3 C5 CONVERTASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROPERDIN;

ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL GRANULE; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; METABOLISM; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; COMPLEMENT FACTOR B; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; NEUTROPHILS; PROPERDIN; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0031135489     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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