Circulating Complement Levels and C3 Glomerulopathy
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Circulating complement levels and C3 glomerulopathy.
The complement system is an essential part of innate immunity acting as afirst-line defense against infection and provides an interface between innate and adaptive immunity (1,2). It consists of a network of soluble (fluid phase) and cell membrane proteins (solid phase). The key step in the complement cascade is the cleavage of C3 to C3a and C3b leading to the formation of a C3 convertase via t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1555-9041,1555-905X
DOI: 10.2215/cjn.09620914