A novel role for the fifth component of complement (C5) in cardiac physiology.

We have previously demonstrated that C5-deficient A/J and recombinant congenic BcA17 mice suffer from cardiac dysfunction when infected with C. albicans blastospores intravenously. During these studies we had observed that, even in the control un-infected state, BcA17 hearts displayed alterations in...

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Main Authors: Alaka Mullick, Jessy Tremblay, Zully Leon, Philippe Gros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21829669/pdf/?tool=EBI