The complement system is part of the innate immune response that plays important roles in protecting the host from foreign pathogens. The complement components and relative fragment deposition have ...

The complement system is an essential innate immune surveillance network that plays a crucial role in safeguarding the host against various threats, including invading microorganisms, dying or ...

The term complement references a set of serum proteins that cooperate with both the innate and the adaptive immune systems to eliminate blood and tissue pathogens. Like the components of the blood ...

Copyright: Published by Elsevier Ltd. The complement system is recognised as a protector against blood-borne pathogens and a controller of immune system and tissue ...

The aim of this study was to determine the complement functions, the serum levels of the complement components C3 and C4, and circulating immune complexes during autologous blood stem cell ...

Introduction: IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common primary glomerulonephritis. The first symptoms of IgAN are erytrocyturia or hematuria, proteinuria, and decline in renal function, or any ...

It was called ‘complement’ because it aided the antibacterial activity of antibodies. However, it is now known that the complement system can be activated early in an infection without the presence of ...

Breast milk provides infants with more than just nutrition; it also includes immune system components, some of them better studied than others. “We found the complement in mouse breast milk supports a ...