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Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Intravenous Immunoglobulin

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Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) is a therapeutic preparation of normal human polyspecific immunoglobulin (Ig) G obtained from pooled plasma of a large number of healthy donors.

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Bar-Dayan, Y., Kaveri, S.V., Bar-Dayan, Y., Pashov, A., Shoenfeld, Y., Kazatchkine, M.D. (1999). Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Intravenous Immunoglobulin. In: Eibl, M.M., Huber, C., Peter, H.H., Wahn, U. (eds) Symposium in Immunology VIII. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59947-7_11

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