Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 101, No. 27 (Jul. 6, 2004), pp. 10127-10131 (5 pages) The lectin complement pathway in innate immunity is closely ...

In view of the many recent advances in our understanding of the composition and function of the complement system, it was decided to apply this newer knowledge to an investigation of the heat-labile ...

The lectin pathway is the third pathway in the complement cascade, discovered after the classical and alternative pathways. It more closely resembles the classical pathway due to similar binding ...