 Anaphylatoxins
"Anaphylatoxins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Serum peptides derived from certain cleaved COMPLEMENT PROTEINS during COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION. They induce smooth MUSCLE CONTRACTION; mast cell HISTAMINE RELEASE; PLATELET AGGREGATION; and act as mediators of the local inflammatory process. The order of anaphylatoxin activity from the strongest to the weakest is C5a, C3a, C4a, and C5a des-arginine.
| Descriptor ID |
D000706
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.124.486.274.024
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Anaphylatoxins".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Anaphylatoxins".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Anaphylatoxins" by people in this website by year, and whether "Anaphylatoxins" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Anaphylatoxins" by people in Profiles.
-
Shah RJ, Emtiazjoo AM, Diamond JM, Smith PA, Roe DW, Wille KM, Orens JB, Ware LB, Weinacker A, Lama VN, Bhorade SM, Palmer SM, Crespo M, Lederer DJ, Cantu E, Eckert GJ, Christie JD, Wilkes DS. Plasma complement levels are associated with primary graft dysfunction and mortality after lung transplantation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2014 Jun 15; 189(12):1564-7.
|
People  People who have written about this concept. _
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|