opsonin

MBL works as opsonin and initiates lectin complement activation pathway [20].

Lysozyme is an important component in the nonspecific humoral immune which possess both bactericidal as well as opsonin effects that activate the complement system and phagocytes to prevent infection and disease.

Patients with liver cirrhosis suffer from immunosuppression due to multiple reasons such as decreased phagocytic activity of neutrophilic granulocytes and the mononuclear phagocytic system deteriorated humoral immunity and decreased opsonin activity of ascitic fluid16.

Complement was used as opsonin for the NBT test and was provided using fresh pooled human serum.

To rapidly cleanse the blood of pathogens, the patient's blood is mixed with magnetic nanobeads coated with a genetically engineered version of a human blood 'opsonin' protein that binds to a wide variety of bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites, and toxins.

Importantly, in the past years, synaptic pruning was found to be determined by the microglial chemokine receptor C[X.sub.3]CR1 and the classical complement cascade, including, most notably, signaling between the microglial complement receptor 3 (CR3) and the neuronal opsonin C3 [21, 28].

Taira et al., "A novel human serum lectin with collagen- and fibrinogen-like domains that functions as an opsonin," Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol.

The bioactivity of lectin may appear to function as a pattern recognition protein specific for Gram-negative and acid-fast bacteria through its interaction with Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and also as an opsonin to increase the efficiency of hemocyte phagocytosis.

Another new finding was that when CRP was allowed to interact with human LOX-1 in vitro, complement was activated (as measured by the generation of the opsonin C3d).