Roles of the Complement System in Human Neurodegenerative Disorders
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Molecular Neurobiology
- Vol. 25 (1) , 001-018
- https://doi.org/10.1385/mn:25:1:001
Abstract
Complement is an important component of the innate immune response with the capacity to recognize and clear infectious challenges that invade the CNS through a damaged blood brain barrier. For...Keywords
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