| Literature DB >> 16870257 |
Roelof Flierman1, Mohamed R Daha.
Abstract
A substantial proportion of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) develop renal inflammatory disease, so-called lupus nephritis (LN). LN is a severe complication of SLE which is strongly associated with the presence of autoantibodies against C1q, the first component of the complement system, and other self-antigens (i.e. against DNA and nucleosomes) as well. In this review, the authors focus on anti-C1q autoantibodies and interpret the available data in order to explain how LN may develop and how anti-C1q autoantibodies contribute to its pathogenesis.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16870257 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2006.06.010
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Immunol ISSN: 0161-5890 Impact factor: 4.407