Compliments from complement: A fourth pathway of complement activation?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3374-3376

  Daha, Mohamed R ^a   van Kooten, Cees ^a   Roos, Anja ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complement; MBL

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C2; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3A; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3B; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; MANNAN BINDING LECTIN;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY; COMPLEMENT CLASSICAL PATHWAY; COMPLEMENT LECTIN PATHWAY; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OPSONIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION;

EID: 33751436137     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl515     Document Type: Article

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