Cutting edge: Human anaphylatoxin C4a is a potent agonist of the guinea pig but not the human C3a receptor

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2089-2093

  Lienenklaus, Stefan ^a   Ames, Robert S ^b   Tornetta, Mark A ^b   Sarau, Henry M ^b   Foley, James J ^b   Crass, Torsten ^a   Sohns, Bettina ^a   Raffetseder, Ute ^a   Grove, Melanie ^a   Hölzer, Anja ^a   Klos, Andreas ^a   Köhl, Jörg ^a   Bautsch, Wilfried ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANAPHYLATOXIN; CALCIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENT C3A RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4A; COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AGONIST; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM MOBILIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THROMBOCYTE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPLEMENT C4A; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLATELET ACTIVATION; RECEPTORS, COMPLEMENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0032158527     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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