Complement in Human Disease

Indirect Complement Fixation in Foot-and-Mouth Disease

Indirect Complement Fixation in Foot and Mouth Disease. II. Screening of Cattle Serums

Evaluation of Pasteurella multocida serotype B:2 resistance to immune serum and complement system

Members of gram-negative bacteria family Pasteurellaceae, include a large number of important economically human and veterinary pathogens. Organisms belonging to the family can colonize in mucosal surfaces of the respiratory, alimentary, genital tracts and cause diseases in various mammals, birds, and reptiles. Hemorrhagic septicemia is an acute disease of cattle and buffaloes in tropi...

Complement factors in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Unstable Angina

Background: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the most important and lethal diseases in the world. CAD represents a board spectrum of disease from silent ischemia at one end to sudden cardiac death at the other end. The middle of this spectrum consists of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and unstable angina pectoris (UA). Recent data show that the inflammatory process plays a major r...

pH Resistance of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus and its Complement-Fixing Antigen

ارتباط فعالیت بیماری لوپوس اریتماتوز سیستمیک (SLE) با فعالیت مسیر کلاسیک کمپلمان (CH50)

Background: The components of the classical complement pathway play an important role in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and are reportedly useful biomarkers of disease activity. In this study, we evaluate disease activity, complement function (total hemolytic complement, CH50) and complement protein levels (C3, C4, C3d, C4d, SC5b-9), comparing the results of patients wit...