Complement in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis: functional screening and quantitative analysis
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The complement system is vital for innate immunity and is implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases and the mechanism of host defense. Complement deficiencies occasionally cause life-threatening diseases. In hemodialysi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-12-01
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| Series: | BMC Nephrology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2369/11/34 |