The results of a newly reported study may offer scientists a strategy for mitigating the negative side effects associated with intravenous injection of nanoparticles used in medicine. The new approach ...
The complement system serves many biological functions, including the eradication of invasive pathogens and the removal of damaged cells and immune-complexes. Uncontrolled complement activation causes ...
The 155-kd soluble complement regulator factor H (FH), which consists of 20 short consensus repeats, increases the affinity of complement factor I (FI) for C3b by about 15 times. In addition to its ...