Iara Messias-Reason

Deficiency of mannan-binding lectin associated serine protease-2 due to missense polymorphisms

Steffen Thiel, R. Steffensen, Ib Jarle Christensen et al. · Genes and Immunity · 2007 · 92 citations

Protein Function, Medicine, Genetics +10

Ficolin 2 (FCN2) functional polymorphisms and the risk of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

Iara Messias-Reason, Marcelo Derbli Schafranski, Peter G. Kremsner et al. · Clinical & Experimental Immunology · 2009 · 85 citations · Full text

Significantly increased levels of mannose-binding lectin (MBL) in rheumatic heart disease: a beneficial role for MBL deficiency

Marcelo Derbli Schafranski, Arnaldo Laffitte Stier, Renato Nisihara et al. · Clinical & Experimental Immunology · 2004 · 81 citations · Full text

Heart Failure, Healthy Subjects, Immunology +16

Mannan-binding lectin plasma levels in leprosy: deficiency confers protection against the lepromatous but not the tuberculoid forms

Luciana Nasser Dornelles, Lilian Pereira‐Ferrari, Iara Messias-Reason · Clinical & Experimental Immunology · 2006 · 80 citations · Full text

Association of Mannose-Binding Lectin Gene Polymorphism but Not of Mannose-Binding Serine Protease 2 with Chronic Severe Aortic Regurgitation of Rheumatic Etiology

Rajendranath Ramasawmy, Guilherme Sobreira Spina, Kellen C. Faé et al. · Clinical and Vaccine Immunology · 2008 · 78 citations · Full text

Inflammation, Rheumatology, Autoimmune Disease +14