Complement proteins may be helpful when it comes to rallying clearance of hazardous debris from the brain, but scientists believe the immune activators can also inflict irreparable damage to neurons ...
This story was updated on February 5, 2019. Just when you thought ApoE biology couldn’t get any more complicated, scientists have discovered a new function for this apolipoprotein. According to a ...
SÃO PAULO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pint Pharma and OrphanDC announced on July 25th that ANVISA, the National Health Surveillance Agency, approved, on July 25th, 2023, the drug EMPAVELI® (pegcetacoplan, ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 77, No. 12, [Part 2: Biological Sciences] (Dec., 1980), pp. 7194-7198 (5 pages) We report the inactivation of the ...
Dense deposit disease is a rare congenital disorder that is associated with complement dysfunction and often results in end stage renal disease within 10 years of the initial diagnosis. A small ...
Researchers have collaboratively developed and described a llama-antibody that might have significant impact for future diagnostics and treatment of, e.g., kidney diseases. Researchers from the ...