"Complement C3" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A glycoprotein that is central in both the classical and the alternative pathway of COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION. C3 can be cleaved into COMPLEMENT C3A and COMPLEMENT C3B, spontaneously at low level or by C3 CONVERTASE at high level. The smaller fragment C3a is an ANAPHYLATOXIN and mediator of local inflammatory process. The larger fragment C3b binds with C3 convertase to form C5 convertase.
| Descriptor ID |
D003176
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.124.050.140 D12.776.124.486.274.250
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| Concept/Terms |
Complement C3- Complement C3
- C3, Complement
- Complement 3
- Complement Component 3
- Component 3, Complement
- C3 Complement
- Complement, C3
Complement C3 Precursor- Complement C3 Precursor
- C3 Precursor, Complement
- Precursor, Complement C3
- Pro-Complement 3
- Pro Complement 3
- Pro-C3
- Pro C3
- C3 Precursor
- Precursor, C3
- Precursor-Complement 3
- Precursor Complement 3
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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