Human L-ficolin (ficolin-2) and its clinical significance

Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kilpatrick, David C ^a   Chalmers, James D ^b  

^a SCOTTISH NATIONAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID P COMPONENT; BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM; COLLAGEN; COLLAGENASE; COLLECTIN; CURDLAN; CYSTEINE; DNA; ELASTIN; FIBRINOGEN; FICOLIN; FICOLIN 2; LECTIN; LIPOTEICHOIC ACID; MANNAN BINDING LECTIN ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEINASE; N ACETYLLACTOSAMINE SYNTHASE; PENTRAXIN; PENTRAXIN 3; POLYMER; PROTEIN P35; STEROID; SUGAR; TETRASACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEROCOCCUS VIRIDANS; ALLERGIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASTHMA; BILE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHROMOSOME 9; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEPROSY; LIVER; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; PERITONITIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREMATURITY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEPSIS; SERUM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRIPLE HELIX; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LECTINS;

EID: 84858123873     PISSN: 11107243     EISSN: 11107251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/138797     Document Type: Review

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