A gamma-globulin factor in the serum of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus that reacts with isolated cell nuclei 1 or nucleoprotein 2,3 has been detected in many ways. 4 The standard method of ...

A modified direct complement-fixation (CF) test is described which will detect antibodies in chicken serum associated with Marek's disease herpesvirus (MDHV) infection. The test is modified in that ...

A complement blood test checks for autoimmune diseases or other issues with your immune system. Your doctor might test you if you have a family history of certain conditions, such as rheumatoid ...

R. L. Kahn, R. M. Olin Jr. The velocity of fixation of complement employing syphilitic serums and 6 different Wassermann antigens was studied. The periods of fixation ...

MULTIPLE sclerosis was recognized as a clinical entity early in the nineteenth century by Charcot. Since then its pathology and clinical symptomatology have been defined, but the etiology of this ...

Serra, Guarini et al. 1 suggested in 1958 a peculiar complement-fixation test as a very selective serological technique for identifying the blood sera of carriers of malignant tumours. You have full ...

EARLIER investigations have shown that cattle which exhibit a marked degree of natural resistance to infection with Haemonchus spp. also develop higher complement-fixation titres than susceptible ...