Introduction Acute lung injury (ALI) as one kind of acute pulmonary inflammatory disorder, manifests primarily as damage to alveolar epithelial cells and microvascular endothelial cells.
Jiao Li +6 more
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Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the potential importance of complement system activation, with particular emphasis on the complement alternative pathway (AP), in the pathogenesis of hypertensive renal damage.Methods Serum complement C3,
Zhongli Wang +8 more
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Chemotaxigenesis and activation of the alternative complement pathway by encapsulated and non-encapsulated Cryptococcus neoformans [PDF]
K A Laxalt, Thomas R. Kozel
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Alterations in the complement cascade in post-traumatic stress disorder
Background In the present study we assessed the functional state of the major mediator of the immune response, the complement system, in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Hovhannisyan Lilit P +3 more
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In vaccinated individuals serum bactericidal activity against B meningococci is abrogated by C5 inhibition but not by inhibition of the alternative complement pathway. [PDF]
Ispasanie E +8 more
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Alternative pathway of complement: demonstration and characterization of initiating factor and its properdin-independent function. [PDF]
Robert D. Schreiber +2 more
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Components of the alternative complement pathway in patients with psoriasis
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease. Adipose tissue plays important roles in the events that regulate body metabolism. This study determined the levels of complement 3 ( C3), acylation-stimulating protein (ASP), and adipsin, which take part in the alternate complement pathway, and are synthesized in and secreted by adipose tissue.Thirty ...
Betül Şereflican, Guler Bugdayci
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Chronic kidney disease enhances alternative pathway activity: a new paradigm
Reduced kidney function is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease in addition to kidney disease progression. Kidney disease is considered an inflammatory state, based on elevated levels of C-reactive protein and inflammatory cytokines ...
Diana I. Jalal +2 more
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Qihuang Granule protects the retinal pigment epithelium from oxidative stress via regulation of the alternative complement pathway. [PDF]
Wang Y +6 more
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Functional evaluation of rare variants in complement factor I using a minigene assay
The regulatory serine protease, complement factor I (FI), in conjunction with one of its cofactors (FH, C4BP, MCP, or CR1), plays an essential role in controlling complement activity through inactivation of C3b and C4b.
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