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Novel Mechanism of Fetal Hepatocyte Injury in Congenital Alloimmune Hepatitis Involves the Terminal Complement Cascade
3 Feb 2010
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UNLABELLED: Evidence suggests that most neonatal hemochromatosis (NH) is the phenotypic expression of gestational alloimmune fetal liver injury. Gestational alloimmune diseases are induced by the placental passage of specific reactive immunoglobulin G and often involve the activation of fetal complement by the classical pathway leading to the formation of membrane attack complex (MAC) as the effector of cell...
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