Influence of heat inactivation of human serum on the opsonization of Streptococcus mutans

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 832, Issue , 1997, Pages 383-393

  Moore, Michelle A ^a   Hakki, Zaid W ^a   Gregory, Richard L ^a   Gfell, Linda E ^a   Kim Park, Wan K ^a   Kowolik, Michael J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENT;

COMPLEMENT INHIBITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEATING; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHODOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OPSONIZATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SERUM; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0031574407     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb46266.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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