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Study finds complement system causes cell damage in long COVID
It is part of the innate immune system and normally helps to fight infections and eliminate damaged and infected body cells. "In patients with long COVID, the complement system no longer returns ...
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Breakthrough microscopy technique reveals how antibodies target cancer cells
Professor Markus Sauer from the Biocentre of Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany ...
Super-resolution microscopy shows how therapeutic antibodies work against cancer cells
In blood cancers such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia, B cells of the immune system multiply uncontrollably. One form of ...
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C3d enhancement of antibodies to hemagglutinin accelerates protection against influenza virus challenge
In the human immune system, one consequence of complement activation is the covalent attachment of the C3d fragment of the third complement protein to the activating protein. C3d in turn binds to ...