Monomeric complement-activating IgG paraproteins

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 6924-6932

  Trendelenburg, Marten ^a   Hess, Christoph ^a   Kondo Oestreicher, Mitsuko ^b   Tissot, Jean D ^c   Späth, Peter ^d   Schifferli, Jürg A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Zentrallaboratorium Blood Donor S ^*  (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d Zentrallaboratorium Blood Donor S   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1S INHIBITOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PARAPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; PANNICULITIS; PARAPROTEINEMIA; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT HEMOLYTIC ACTIVITY ASSAY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PARAPROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 0032756732     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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