Clusters Not Classifications: Making Sense of Complement-Mediated Kidney Injury
Author(s) -
H. Terence Cook,
Matthew C. Pickering
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of the american society of nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.451
H-Index - 279
eISSN - 1533-3450
pISSN - 1046-6673
DOI - 10.1681/asn.2017111183
Subject(s) - alternative complement pathway , glomerulopathy , complement system , regulator , atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome , membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis , disease , complement factor b , complement (music) , factor h , pathology , biology , immunology , medicine , kidney , microbiology and biotechnology , glomerulonephritis , genetics , immune system , phenotype , gene , complementation
In 2010, we suggested the name C3 glomerulopathy to encompass a group of glomerular diseases characterized by the presence of glomerular C3 in the absence of substantial Ig and without deposition of the early components of the classic or lectin pathways of complement activation.[1][1] Within this
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