Monitoring of the Complement System Status in Patients With B-Cell Malignancies Treated With Rituximab

Rituximab is a pioneering anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody that became the first-line drug used in immunotherapy of B-cell malignancies over the last twenty years. Rituximab activates the complement system in vitro, but there is an ongoing debate on the exact role of this effector mechanism in therapeu...

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Main Authors: Anna Felberg, Michał Taszner, Aleksandra Urban, Alan Majeranowski, Kinga Jaskuła, Aleksandra Jurkiewicz, Grzegorz Stasiłojć, Anna M. Blom, Jan M. Zaucha, Marcin Okrój
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2020.584509/full