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Alternative Complement Pathway in Carotid Atherosclerosis: Low Plasma Properdin Levels Associate With Long‐Term Cardiovascular Mortality

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Background Complement activation may promote atherosclerosis. Yet, data on the to which extent complement, and more specifically the alternative complement pathway, is activated in patients with carotid atherosclerosis and related to adverse outcome in ...
Mieke C. Louwe, Chrysostomi Gialeli, Annika E. Michelsen, Sverre Holm, Andreas Edsfeldt, Karolina Skagen, Tove Lekva, Maria Belland Olsen, Vigdis Bjerkeli, Therese Schjørlien, Kristine Stø, Xiang Yi Kong, Tuva B. Dahl, Per H. Nilsson, Peter Libby, Pål Aukrust, Tom Eirik Mollnes, Thor Ueland, Mona Skjelland, Isabel Gonçalves, Bente Halvorsen   +20 more
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Association between circulatory complement activation and hypertensive renal damage: a case–control study

Renal Failure
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, Tingting Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Jianlong Zhai, Lili He, Sai Ma, Qingjuan Zuo, Guorui Zhang, Yifang Guo   +8 more
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The Functional Amyloid Curli Protects Escherichia coli against Complement-Mediated Bactericidal Activity

Biomolecules, 2018
Escherichia coli strains may be beneficial or pathogenic. Many E. coli strains that cause human disease, especially those responsible for bacteremia and sepsis, express virulence factors that impart resistance to the complement system.
Steven G. Biesecker, Lauren K. Nicastro, R. Paul Wilson, Çağla Tükel   +3 more
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Baicalin relieves complement alternative pathway activation-induced lung inflammation through inhibition of NF-κB pathway

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
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, Qi-Yun Zhang, Qing-Yu Lu, Qiao-Zhou Liu, Li Guo, Min Li, Qian-Yun Sun   +6 more
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Chronic kidney disease enhances alternative pathway activity: a new paradigm

The Journal of Clinical Investigation
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, Joshua M. Thurman, Richard J.H. Smith   +2 more
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Functional evaluation of rare variants in complement factor I using a minigene assay

Frontiers in Immunology
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.
Cobey J. H. Donelson, Nicolo Ghiringhelli Borsa, Amanda O. Taylor, Richard J. H. Smith, Yuzhou Zhang   +4 more
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Therapeutic targeting of alternative pathway and C5 but not C5a protects from disease development in a preclinical model of autoimmune blistering dermatosis

Frontiers in Immunology
IntroductionEpidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita (EBA) is an autoimmune blistering dermatosis characterized by autoantibodies (AAbs) against type VII collagen (COL7) located at the dermal epidermal junction (DEJ).
Björn Laffer, Mareike Ohms, Samyr Kenno, Ping Tsui, Elvira Ehlers-Jeske, Wenru Song, Wen-Chao Song, Jörg Köhl   +7 more
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Complement Pathway Associated Glomerulopathies [PDF]

European Medical Journal, 2016
The complement system causes kidney injury in a variety of different diseases, and clinical evaluation of the complement system is an important part of the diagnostic workup of patients with glomerulonephritis.
Yasar Caliskan
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Complement Hyperactivation Is Mediated by Alternative and Lectin Pathways During Early Phase of Severe Vaccination-Omicron BA.5 Infection. [PDF]

J Med Virol
Cao J, Yang G, Cui T, Qin J, Huang D, Jin S, Yang X, Huang M, Su X, Liu S, Xia Y, Deng S, Luo C, Zhao Z, Zhang Y, Zhong N, Wang Z.   +16 more
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The Complement System in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: Mechanistic Insights, Therapeutic Horizons, and Unmet Clinical Needs. [PDF]

Immun Inflamm Dis
Sunmboye K, Millan P.
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