The complement system : novel roles in health and disease /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Szebeni, Janos, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2004]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The complement system - novel roles in health and disease
  • A piece of complement history
  • The development of the "one-hit" or "single-site" theory of complement mediated immune hemolysis a personal account
  • Pathways, genetics and gene regulation of complement
  • The initiation complexes of the classical and lectin pathways
  • Complement genetics
  • Regulation of complement receptor gene expression : regulators and inhibitors
  • Novel regulatory roles of complement in health and disease
  • Coordination of adaptive immune responses by C3
  • Terminal complement complex : regulation of formation and pathophysiological functions
  • The many faces of the membrane regulators of complement
  • New insights into the regulation of complement activation by decay accelerating factor
  • The role of complement in pregnancy and fetal loss
  • Complement deficiencies : a 2004 update
  • Exploitation of complement proteins in infection and cancer
  • Microbial evasion mechanism against human complement
  • Complement-mediated antibody-dependent enhancement of viral infections
  • Tumor cell resistance to complement-mediated lysis
  • Role of complement autoimmune diseases, allergy and transplantation
  • Complement and autoimmunity
  • The complex roles of anaphylatoxins in allergic asthma and autoimmune diseases
  • Role of complement in allergy
  • Complement activation-related pseudoallergy : mechanism of anaphylactoid reactions to radiocontrast media and drug carrier liposomes and micelles
  • The role of complement in transplantation
  • Role of complement in acute catastrophic illness
  • Role of complement in myocardial ischemia and infarction
  • Role of complement in intestinal ischemia/reperfusion induced injury
  • Role of C5a and C5a receptor in sepsis
  • Role of complement in multi-organ dysfunction syndrome
  • The complement system as therapeutical target
  • Therapeutic manipulation of the complement system
  • Activation and inhibition of complement by immunoglobulins
  • Engineering control of complement inhibition at the cell surface