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Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and complement-mediated erythrocyte damage.
Current opinion in hematology - 1 Mar 1994
Parker C J
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The erythrocytes of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria are abnormally sensitive to complement-mediated lysis because they are deficient in membrane proteins that regulate the functional activity of complement. All the deficient proteins in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria share the common structural feature of being anchored to the cell surface by a glycosyl phosphatidylinositol moiety. Recent studies showed...
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