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Complement deficiency

Known as: complement deficiencies, deficiency complement 
A broad classification for rare genetic disorders with mostly autosomal recessive patterns of inheritance. They are caused by the ineffective or… 
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Review
2005
Review
2005
ConclusionsStudy of patients with complement deficiency has supplied important insights into the physiological importance of this… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
To evaluate the in vitro effect of meningococcal vaccination, 3 C7-deficient (C7-D) siblings and 2 normal controls were studied… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
The particularly frequent occurrence of terminal complement deficiencies in patients with Neisserial infections suggests that the… 
1991
1991
The concept of a common opsonic deficiency arose following work which was initiated by Miller etal in 1968 (1). These authors… 
Review
1989
Review
1989
The importance of the complement system in host defense against systemic infection caused by neisseriae is emphasized by a number… 
1986
1986
We treated two patients with severe hepatic failure complicated by meningococcemia. Serum complement profiles performed on these… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
To assess the role of complement in the induction of the humoral immune response, we studied the antibody response of guinea pigs… 
Review
1984
Review
1984
Isolated genetic deficiencies of individual components of the complementary system have been described in man for all the… 
1966
1966
A strain of rabbits with an inherited complement deficiency was shown to lack the sixth component of the hemolytic complement…