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Genetic engineering strategies to prevent the effects of antibody and complement on xenogeneic chondrocytes [PDF]
European Cells & Materials, 2015 Advances in animal transgenesis may allow using xenogeneic chondrocytes in tissue-engineering applications for clinical cartilage repair. Porcine cartilage is rejected by humoral and cellular mechanisms that could be overcome by identifying key molecules
R Sommaggio +5 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 Motivation: The complement pathway plays a critical role in innate immune defense against infections. Dysregulation between activation and regulation of the complement pathway is widely known to contribute to several diseases.
Loveleena Bansal +8 more
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Laboratory tests for disorders of complement and complement regulatory proteins [PDF]
American Journal of Hematology, 2015 The complement pathway is a cascade of proteases that is involved in immune surveillance and innate immunity, as well as adaptive immunity. Dysfunction of the complement cascade may be mediated by aberrations in the pathways of activation, complement regulatory proteins, or complement deficiencies, and has been linked to a number of hematologic ...
Angela R, Shih, Mandakolathur R, Murali
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Virus-Encoded Complement Regulators: Current Status
Viruses, 2021 Viruses require a host for replication and survival and hence are subjected to host immunological pressures. The complement system, a crucial first response of the host immune system, is effective in targeting viruses and virus-infected cells, and ...
Anwesha Sinha +4 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Sustained complement activation is an underlying pathologic driver in many inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Currently approved anti-complement therapies are directed at the systemic blockade of complement.
Kelly C. Fahnoe +11 more
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Enhanced CDC of B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells mediated by rituximab combined with a novel anti-complement factor H antibody. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Rituximab therapy for B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) has met with mixed success. Among several factors to which resistance can be attributed is failure to activate complement dependent cytotoxicity (CDC) due to protective complement ...
Mark T Winkler +7 more
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Complement Regulatory Proteins [PDF]
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2003 In this issue of JASN , Turnberg et al. ([1][1]) report that the manifestations of disease in an immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis model are exacerbated in Cd59a knockout mice. Exacerbation was associated with an increase in C9 deposition in glomeruli, suggesting that the deficiency ...
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Complement Evasion: An Effective Strategy That Parasites Utilize to Survive in the Host
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 Parasitic infections induce host immune responses that eliminate the invading parasites. However, parasites have evolved to develop many strategies to evade host immune attacks and survive in a hostile environment. The complement system acts as the first
Shuai Shao +4 more
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Binding of complement regulatory proteins to Group A Streptococcus [PDF]
Vaccine, 2008 Streptococcus pyogenes or Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is the etiologic agent of important human infections such as acute pharyngitis, impetigo, rheumatic fever and the streptococcal toxic shock syndrome. Binding of the complement regulatory proteins factor H, factor H-like protein 1 (FHL-1), C4b-binding protein (C4BP), or CD46 is a crucial step in the ...
Oliver, María Antonia +3 more
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Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2021 Complement, a feature of the innate immune system that targets pathogens for phagocytic clearance and promotes inflammation, is tightly regulated to prevent damage to host tissue.
Nicholas Peoples, Candace Strang
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