Article
Molecular analysis of C3 allotypes in patients with nephritic factor.
Clinical and experimental immunology - 1 Mar 1993
Finn J E, Mathieson P W
Abstract excerpt
The autoantibody nephritic factor (NeF) leads to complement consumption in vivo and is associated with type II mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis (MCGN II) and partial lipodystrophy (PLD). The third component of complement (C3) exists in two common allotypic forms, C3S and C3F, distinguished at...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Alleles
- Autoantibodies
- Base Sequence
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Complement C3
- DNA
- Female
- Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative
- Heymann Nephritis Antigenic Complex
- Humans
- Kidney Glomerulus
- Lipodystrophy
- Male
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Middle Aged