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Mannose-Binding Lectin

"Mannose-Binding Lectin" 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.

A specific mannose-binding member of the collectin family of lectins. It binds to carbohydrate groups on invading pathogens and plays a key role in the MANNOSE-BINDING LECTIN COMPLEMENT PATHWAY.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Mannose-Binding Lectin" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Mannose-Binding Lectin" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 94 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2005 and 2006
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.