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Preferred term

Complement Inactivator Proteins  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Complement Inactivating Proteins
  • Complement Inactivators, Serum
  • Inactivating Proteins, Complement
  • Inactivators, Serum Complement
  • Proteins, Complement Inactivating
  • Serum Complement Inactivators

Note

  • do not confuse with COMPLEMENT INACTIVATING AGENTS

Scope note

  • Serum proteins that negatively regulate the cascade process of COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION. Uncontrolled complement activation and resulting cell lysis is potentially dangerous for the host. The complement system is tightly regulated by inactivators that accelerate the decay of intermediates and certain cell surface receptors.

History note

  • 2006 (1978)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003169

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