Terminal complement pathway activation drives synaptic loss in Alzheimer's disease models

SM Carpanini, M Torvell, RJ Bevan, RAJ Byrne… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2022 - Springer
Complement is involved in developmental synaptic pruning and pathological synapse loss
in Alzheimer's disease. It is posited that C1 binding initiates complement activation on …

Vinyl sulfone-functionalized acetalated dextran microparticles as a subunit broadly acting influenza vaccine

CJ Batty, LM Lifshits, DA Hendy, M Eckshtain-Levi… - The AAPS journal, 2023 - Springer
Influenza is a global health concern with millions of infections occurring yearly. Seasonal flu
vaccines are one way to combat this virus; however, they are poorly protective against …

Sustained delivery of CpG oligodeoxynucleotide by acetalated dextran microparticles augments effector response to Computationally Optimized Broadly Reactive …

CJ Batty, EA Amouzougan, MA Carlock… - International journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
A subunit or protein-based influenza vaccine can be a safer alternative to live attenuated
vaccine (Flumist) and require fewer boosts than an inactivated vaccine (eg Fluzone) …

Monoclonal antibodies capable of inhibiting complement downstream of C5 in multiple species

WM Zelek, BP Morgan - Frontiers in Immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Better understanding of roles of complement in pathology has fuelled an explosion of
interest in complement-targeted therapeutics. The C5-blocking monoclonal antibody (mAb) …

Brain-penetrant complement inhibition mitigates neurodegeneration in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

WM Zelek, RJ Bevan, J Nimmo, M Dewilde… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Complement activation is implicated in driving brain inflammation, self-cell damage and
progression of injury in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. Here …

Development and characterization of novel anti‐C5 monoclonal antibodies capable of inhibiting complement in multiple species

WM Zelek, PR Taylor, BP Morgan - Immunology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last decade there has been an explosion in complement therapies; one‐third of the
drugs in the clinic or in development target C5 protein. Eculizumab, a monoclonal antibody …

Analysis of complement deposition and processing on Chlamydia trachomatis

M Lausen, ME Thomsen, G Christiansen… - Medical Microbiology …, 2021 - Springer
Chlamydia trachomatis (C. trachomatis) is the leading cause of sexually transmitted bacterial
infections worldwide, with over 120 million annual cases. C. trachomatis infections are …

Successful pharmacological intervention at different levels of the complement system in an in vitro complement fixation model for bullous pemphigoid

J Giang, MBA van Doorn, GFH Diercks… - Experimental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is characterized by deposition of immunoglobulins and
complement along the epidermal basement membrane (BM). In humans, there is a lack of …

Characterizing the original anti‐C5 function‐blocking antibody, BB5. 1, for species specificity, mode of action and interactions with C5

WM Zelek, GE Menzies, A Brancale, B Stockinger… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The implication of complement in multiple diseases over the last 20 years has fuelled
interest in developing anti‐complement drugs. To date, the focus has been on C5; blocking …

Development of EndoScreen Chip, a microfluidic pre-endoscopy triage test for esophageal adenocarcinoma

JA Webster, A Wuethrich, KB Shanmugasundaram… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is often detected late and has a poor
survival rate. Currently, patients are selected for endoscopy-biopsy diagnosis based on …