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Complement and its receptors: new insights into human disease.
Annual review of immunology - 1 Jan 2014
Holers V Michael
Abstract excerpt
Although new activation and regulatory mechanisms are still being identified, the basic architecture of the complement system has been known for decades. Two major roles of complement are to control certain bacterial infections and to promote clearance of apoptotic cells. In addition, although inappropriate complement activation has long been proposed to cause tissue damage in human inflammatory and autoimmune...
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