The lectin-complement pathway - Its role in innate immunity and evolution

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 198, Issue , 2004, Pages 185-202

  Fujita, Teizo ^a,b   Matsushita, Misao ^c   Endo, Yuichi ^a,b  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; FICOLIN; LECTIN; LECTIN COMPLEMENT COMPLEX; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEINASE; RECEPTOR; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACQUIRED IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ASCIDIACEA; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT LECTIN PATHWAY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPSONIZATION; PATHOGEN ASSOCIATED MOLECULAR PATTERN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT PATHWAY, MANNOSE-BINDING LECTIN; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LECTINS; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 1642463804     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2004.0123.x     Document Type: Review

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