Complement proteins may be helpful when it comes to rallying clearance of hazardous debris from the brain, but scientists believe the immune activators can also inflict irreparable damage to neurons ...
SÃO PAULO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pint Pharma and OrphanDC announced on July 25th that ANVISA, the National Health Surveillance Agency, approved, on July 25th, 2023, the drug EMPAVELI® (pegcetacoplan, ...
In a phase three, double blind, placebo controlled trial, pegcetacoplan significantly reduced proteinuria compared with ...
Medically reviewed by Femi Aremu, PharmD Complement 3 glomerulopathy (C3G) is a rare type of kidney disease. There are two types: C3 glomerulonephritis (C3GN) and dense deposit disease (DDD).C3GN is ...
Medically reviewed by Matthew Wosnitzer, MD Key Takeaways Proteinuria affects most people with complement 3 glomerulopathy ...
A new analysis of lung epithelial cells from COVID-19 patients reveals how the protective complement branch of the immune system, which usually plays roles in both innate and adaptive immunity, can ...
C3 glomerulopathy (C3G) and primary immune complex membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (IC-MPGN) are two rare kidney diseases. They’re both driven by activity of the complement system, which is a ...
We all forget things, and sometimes it would be better if we did not. Normal forgetting occurs more frequently as we age, but more serious, progressive, retrograde forgetting, which can have severe, ...
In the brain, complex interactions between different cell types can drive inflammation and disease. This cross talk is hard to study in vitro, because culture systems are often too simple to ...