Overactivity of Alternative Pathway Convertases in Patients With Complement-Mediated Renal Diseases
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1 Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Amalia Children’s Hospital, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2 Department of Medical Biotechnology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdańsk and Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland, 3 Medical Protein Chemistry, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, 4 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 5 Department of Pediatrics/Pediatric Nephrology and Department of Development and Regeneration, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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