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Morris Ling1, Mandakolathur Murali2

  • 1Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Cox 201, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Cox 201, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Cox 201, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Cox 201, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
|November 1, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
Alternative pathwayC3C4CH50Classical pathwayComplementLectin pathwayMembrane attack complex

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