Editorial: The ficolins

Journal of Innate Immunity

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-2

  Garred, Peter ^a   Borregaard, Niels ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; AUTOANTIBODY; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; FICOLIN; FICOLIN 1; FICOLIN 2; FICOLIN 3; GENOMIC DNA; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LECTIN;

COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; EDITORIAL; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY;

HUMANS; LECTINS;

EID: 77953464023     PISSN: 1662811X     EISSN: 16628128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000254982     Document Type: Editorial

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