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Mannose-Binding Lectin Serum Level and Gene Polymorphism in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Egyptian Patients.
The Egyptian journal of immunology - 1 Jan 2020
Rabie Rehab A, Ibrahim Nevin F, Gebriel Manar G
Abstract excerpt
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease in which the complement system plays a role in its pathogenesis. Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is a serum protein, being a component of innate immune system, it is responsible for lectin pathway of complement activation. The presence of several polymorphisms at the coding regions of the MBL-2 gene, especially single point mutation at codon 54, leads to...
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