Your complement system consists of a group of important proteins in your bloodstream. These proteins help your immune system fight off harmful invaders, such as bacteria, and other foreign substances.

Lynch joked that their dynamic is a balance of opposites, explaining that they “complement each other” as a bit of yin and ...

The human complement system has a pivotal role in the recognition, opsonization and elimination of microbial intruders. This functionality is maintained by a well-balanced interaction network of serum ...

Long Covid patients suffer from chronic symptoms such as fatigue or shortness of breath. As researchers have discovered, this is to some extent due to a part of our immune system called the complement ...

Among people with sickle cell disease—an inherited blood disorder—acute chest syndrome (ACS) is the leading cause of death. The condition is the result of red blood cells becoming stiff, sticky, and ...

Immunotherapy is increasingly becoming standard therapy in cancer, with technology, such as checkpoint inhibitors and cell therapy, raising the efficacy bar in many forms of the disease. But the ...

PPs may be adjoined to both NP and VP or they may function as a complement to either category. Given a phrase with a PP, it is not easy to determine the PP is a complement or a modifier. A couple of ...