Preparing serum for functional complement assays

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 352, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 195-197

  Lachmann, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classical pathway; Complement; Mice; Serum

Indexed keywords

CELL ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENT; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3A; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3B; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3C; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3DG; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C5A; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C9; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CENTRIFUGATION; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT CLASSICAL PATHWAY; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SERUM;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PROTEINS; COMPLEMENT PATHWAY, CLASSICAL; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; MICE; PROTEIN STABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SERUM; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

MUS;

EID: 71749107933     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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