Wen-Wei Liu

PTX3 in rheumatic and autoimmune diseases: Pathogenesis, biomarker potential, and therapeutic implications.

Pentraxin 3 (PTX3), the prototypical long pentraxin, is a locally inducible soluble pattern-recognition molecule that participates in complement regulation, efferocytosis, extracellular-matrix organization, vascular homeostasis, host defense, and tissue repair. These properties have made PTX3 an attractive candidate bi...