Complement-targeted therapeutics

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1265-1275

  Ricklin, Daniel ^a   Lambris, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG DISCOVERY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; THERAPEUTICS;

DRUG DOSAGE; IMMUNOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

DISEASES;

APT 070; ARC 1905; BCX 1470; BERINERTP; CETOR; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1S INHIBITOR; COMPSTATIN; ECULIZUMAB; INH 248; JPE 1375; JSM 7717; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; MIROCOCEPT; MLN 2222; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD38; NEUTRAZUMAB; OFATUMUMAB; PEGAPTANIB; PEXELIZUMAB; PMX 53; POT 4; PROPERDIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RHUCIN; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SOLIRIS; TA 106; TNX 234; TNX 558; TP10; TP20; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLEMENT DISORDER; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG LEGISLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TARGETING; EYE DISEASE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; KIDNEY DISEASE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHUMAN; PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSORIASIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STROKE;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPLEMENT INACTIVATING AGENTS; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; DISEASE; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL;

EID: 36048937343     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1342     Document Type: Review

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