Functional analysis of agalactosyl IgG i
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Sachiko Nakajima; Hideki Iijima; Shinichiro Shinzaki; Satoshi Egawa; Takahiro In
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Background: Agalactosyl immunoglobulin (Ig) G is increased in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) similarly to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The lectin complement pathway is shown to be activated through association of agalactosyl IgG with mannan-binding lectin (MBL) in RA. Functional changes of IgG agala