The complement system, a key component of innate immunity, exerts profound influence on the initiation, progression and destabilisation of atherosclerotic plaques. Activation may proceed via the ...

The complement system, a proteolytic cascade within innate immunity, is tightly regulated during healthy gestation to support implantation, placental development and parturition while preventing ...

Journal in the field and provides all-inclusive access to the critical pillars of human gene therapy: research, methods, and clinical applications. Recent clinical trials utilizing high doses of adeno ...

Researchers in the United States have conducted a study showing that activation of the complement system is specifically implicated in the pathogenesis of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), ...

Continued activation of complement system damages tissue and blood cells The researchers followed 113 COVID-19 patients for up to one year after their acute SARS-CoV-2 infection and compared them with ...

Most people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus recover after the acute illness. However, a significant proportion of infected individuals develop long-lasting symptoms with a wide range of ...

Recent clinical trials utilizing high doses of adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors have highlighted a new challenge to AAV gene transfer—activation of the complement system. A new article in Human ...

Faults in a certain part of the immune system might be at the root of some long covid cases, new research suggests. For many people, covid is an illness that blusters in and out of our lives as cases ...

K. pneumoniae is frequently the source of hospital-acquired infections and, due to the widespread use of antibiotics in these settings, has also acquired numerous resistance genes. In fact, over ...

Most people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus recover after the acute illness. However, a significant proportion of infected individuals develop long-lasting symptoms with a wide range of ...

A collaborative team from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Perelman School of Medicine have unraveled the mathematics of a 500-million-year-old protein network that acts like the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A protein known as granzyme K was recently shown to be a driver of inflammation by activating the complement ...