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Associations of Serum Complement Biomarkers With Adverse Clinical Outcomes Among Patients With Ischemic Stroke

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Background The complement system plays a crucial role in immune regulation and inflammatory response and is believed to be involved in the onset and progression of ischemic stroke.
Lulu Sun, Yong Wang, Yang Liu, Xinyue Chang, Xueyu Mao, Xuechun Wu, Min Chu, Huicong Niu, Mengyao Shi, Daoxia Guo, Zhengbao Zhu, Jing Zhao   +11 more
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DIAGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF IMMUNITY MARKERS IN INFLAMMATORY CARDIOMYOPATHY PATIENTS

Российский кардиологический журнал, 2017
Aim. To evaluate diagnostic significance of biomarkers for inflammatory cardiomyopathy (ICM).Material and methods. Totally, 35 patients included with suspected inflammatory cardiomyopathy, chronic heart failure of I-III functional class (FC), decreased ...
S. N. Tereschenko, A. A. Skvortsov, A. Yu. Schedrina, O. Yu. Narusov, K. A. Zykov, A. A. Safiullina, A. V. Sychev, I. V. Zhirov   +7 more
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Clinical Characteristics of Patients With IgG4-Related Disease Complicated by Hypocomplementemia

Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
BackgroundA proportion of patients with immunogloblin G (IgG) 4-related disease (IgG4-RD) have hypocomplementemia. We aimed to identify characteristics of such patients.MethodsWe analyzed the demographic and clinical data and complement levels of 85 ...
Yuya Fujita, Yuya Fujita, Shoichi Fukui, Masataka Umeda, Sosuke Tsuji, Naoki Iwamoto, Yoshikazu Nakashima, Yoshiro Horai, Takahisa Suzuki, Akitomo Okada, Toshiyuki Aramaki, Yukitaka Ueki, Akinari Mizokami, Tomoki Origuchi, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kiyoshi Migita, Atsushi Kawakami   +16 more
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QPTAS and Subexponential Algorithm for Maximum Clique on Disk Graphs [PDF]

, 2018
A (unit) disk graph is the intersection graph of closed (unit) disks in the plane. Almost three decades ago, an elegant polynomial-time algorithm was found for Maximum Clique on unit disk graphs [Clark, Colbourn, Johnson; Discrete Mathematics '90]. Since
Bonnet, E., Giannopoulos, P., Kim, E. J., Rzazewski, P., Sikora, F.   +4 more
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Complement Activation Is Associated With Mortality in Patients With Necrotizing Soft-Tissue Infections—A Prospective Observational Study

Frontiers in Immunology, 2020
Aim: We assessed whether different complement factors and complement activation products were associated with poor outcome in patients with necrotizing soft-tissue infection (NSTI).Methods: We conducted a prospective, observational study in an intensive ...
Markus Korsholm Kristensen, Marco Bo Hansen, Marco Bo Hansen, Martin Bruun Madsen, Cecilie Bo Hansen, Katrine Pilely, Ole Hyldegaard, Ole Hyldegaard, Peter Garred   +8 more
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Genome-wide association study for serum complement C3 and C4 levels in healthy Chinese subjects. [PDF]

PLoS Genetics, 2012
Complement C3 and C4 play key roles in the main physiological activities of complement system, and their deficiencies or over-expression are associated with many clinical infectious or immunity diseases.
Xiaobo Yang, Jielin Sun, Yong Gao, Aihua Tan, Haiying Zhang, Yanling Hu, Junjie Feng, Xue Qin, Sha Tao, Zhuo Chen, Seong-Tae Kim, Tao Peng, Ming Liao, Xiaoling Lin, Zengfeng Zhang, Minzhong Tang, Li Li, Linjian Mo, Zhengjia Liang, Deyi Shi, Zhang Huang, Xianghua Huang, Ming Liu, Qian Liu, Shijun Zhang, Jeffrey M Trent, S Lilly Zheng, Jianfeng Xu, Zengnan Mo   +28 more
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Combinatorial functions of two chimeric antibodies directed to human CD4 and one directed to the a-chain of the human interleukin-2 receptor [PDF]

, 1992
The general feasibility of chimerization of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) has already been shown for a large number of them. In order to evaluate in vitro parameters relevant to immunosuppressive therapy, we have chimerized and synthesized two anti-CD4 ...
Flieger, Dimitri, Kaluzab, Brigitte, Lenz, Helmut, Reiter, Christian, Rieber, Ernst Peter, Riethmüller, Gert, Scheuer, Werner, Schwirzke, Marina, Weidle, Ulrich H., Weiss, Elisabeth H., Weissenhorn, Winfried   +10 more
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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in patients with chronic venous catheters: a case report and literature review. [PDF]

, 2014
Chronic indwelling catheters have been reported to be associated with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) via the activation of the classical complement pathway in association with bacterial infections such as coagulase negative ...
Nast, Cynthia C, Pham, Phuong-Chi T, Pham, Phuong-Thu T, Sy, John   +3 more
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Immunoglobulins and complement factor C4 in adult rhinosinusitis

Clinical and Experimental Immunology, 2006
Summary We assessed whether complement and its factor C4 or abnormal immunoglobulin levels are associated with chronic or recurrent rhinosinusitis. We used multiple patient and control groups to obtain clinically meaningful data. Adult chronic or recurrent rhinosinusitis and acute purulent rhinosinusitis patients were compared with ...
M, Seppänen, J, Suvilehto, M-L, Lokki, I-L, Notkola, A, Järvinen, H, Jarva, I, Seppälä, O, Tahkokallio, H, Malmberg, S, Meri, V, Valtonen   +10 more
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Alternative Complement Pathway Inhibition by Lampalizumab

Ophthalmology Science, 2023
Purpose: Lampalizumab, an antigen-binding fragment of a humanized monoclonal antibody directed against complement factor D (CFD), is designed to treat geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to age-related macular degeneration.
Rose Edmonds, MS, Verena Steffen, MSc, Lee A. Honigberg, PhD, Michael C. Chang, PhD   +3 more
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