The complement system : novel roles in health and disease /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
[2004]
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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