This episode walks us through the initial research that paved the way for a game changing therapeutic in ANCA vasculitis, as well as the story of how host Adam J. Brown, MD, finally learned how to spell complement.

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• Intro :10
• Welcome :21
• Today’s episode :24
• So how did we get there? 4:18
• How do we start teasing apart the effect of the complement in ANCA vasculitis? 8:13
• Discussing and simplifying the mouse model 9:00
• Quickly reviewing the complement cascade 12:06

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• Taking the puzzle pieces away in the mouse model 17:04
• What about the next steps? 22:05
• What happens when you block C5a? 25:12
• CCX168: Summing up the mouse tale 28:44
• In the next episode 30:20
• Thanks for listening 30:46

Disclosures: Brown reports no relevant financial disclosures.

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