Biochemical and functional characterizat
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Alma J. Nauta; Barbara Bottazzi; Alberto Mantovani; Giovanni Salvatori; Uday Kis
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Pentraxin 3 (PTX3) is a recently characterized member of the pentraxin family of acute‐phase proteins produced during inflammation. Classical short pentraxins, C‐reactive protein, and serum amyloid P component can bind to C1q and thereby activate the classical complement pathway. Since