Cryoprecipitate of patients with cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis contains molecules of the lectin complement pathway

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 59-66

  Ohsawa, Isao ^a   Ohi, Hiroyuki ^a   Tamano, Mariko ^a   Endo, Morito ^a   Fujita, Takayuki ^a   Satomura, Atsushi ^a   Hidaka, Mutsuko ^a   Fuke, Yoshinobu ^a   Matsushita, Misao ^b   Fujita, Teizo ^b  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryoglobulin; Cryoglobulinemia; Cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis; Hepatitis C virus (HCV); Lectin pathway; Mannose binding lectin (MBL); MBL associated serine protease (MASP)

Indexed keywords

LECTIN; MANNOSE BINDING PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; CRYOPRECIPITATION; FEMALE; GENETIC REGULATION; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS PARTICLE;

EID: 0034788798     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clim.2001.5098     Document Type: Article

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