Complement and diseases: defective alternative pathway control results in kidney and eye diseases.

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The complement system is a central part of innate immunity and in its normal setting aimed to recognize and eliminate microbes. For elimination toxic activation products are generated locally and are reported directly of the surface of the invading microbe. A deregulation of the alternative pathway results in defective recognition and toxic activation products can be formed on the surface of host tissues and...

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