Concavalin A

Concanavalin A Hepatitis plant lectin

Concanavalin A (Con A) is a plant lectin that is purified from jack beans. Con A binds to the mannose residues of varied glycoproteins and prompts lymphocytes. When Con A is run to mice, liver injury that can depend upon the activation of T lymphocytes by macrophages occurs (Tiegs et al., 1992). As a result of this reality, the model could allow the study of the pathophysiology…

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First EUROPEAN PhD and Post-Doc Symposium

ENABLE 2017, the First EUROPEAN PhD and Publish-Doc Symposium. Session 4: From Discovery to Treatment: The Way forward for Therapeutics. The EUROPEAN ACADEMY FOR BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE (ENABLE) is an initiative funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 program involving 4 famend European Analysis Institutes (Institute for Analysis in Biomedicine-IRB Barcelona, Spain; Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences-RIMLS, the Netherlands; Novo Nordisk…

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