Medscape

Esculetin alleviates murine lupus nephritis by inhibiting complement activation and enhancing Nrf2 signaling pathway.

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Esculetin is a bioactive compound of medicinal herb Hydrangea paniculata, and has showed anti-oxidation and anti-inflammation bioactivities. Renal local oxidative ...
Healio

‘Important discovery’ shows how complement cascade drives systemic inflammation

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A protein known as granzyme K was recently shown to be a driver of inflammation by activating the complement ...
News Medical

Neutralizing antibodies produced following COVID-19 BNT162b2 vaccine found to activate complement cascade

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* pre-print server, researchers investigated the complement component 1q (C1q) binding and subsequent complement activation by neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) ...
Lupus Science & Medicine

Lectin pathway of complement in SLE: MAP-1 as a marker of haematological manifestations and elevated type I interferon activity

Objective SLE is a systemic autoimmune disease in which the complement system plays a key pathogenic role, yet the ...