The complement inflammatory cascade is crucial to our innate ability to ward off infection. Two papers now provide evidence linking C5 and C3a to murine airway hyperresponsiveness, a partial model of human asthma. Surprisingly, these complement proteins appear to have opposite effects.
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Henson, P. Complementing asthma. Nat Immunol 1, 190–192 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/79723
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