Activation of the complement system

NR Cooper - Contemporary topics in molecular immunology, 1973 - Springer
The complement system is a mediator of a number of biologically important reactions which
range from cytotoxicity of antibody-sensitized cells, bacteria, and viruses to mediation of …

A novel cell surface molecule on early B-lineage cells

MD Cooper, D Mulvaney, A Coutinho, PA Cazenave - Nature, 1986 - nature.com
B cells and their antibody-secreting progeny represent one of several differentiation
pathways that haematopoietic stem cells (HSC) may enter1, 2. Cells representing …

Formation of the C3-cleaving properdin enzyme on zymosan: Demonstration that factor D is replaceable by proteolytic enzymes

V Brade, A Nicholson, D Bitter-Suermann… - The Journal of …, 1974 - journals.aai.org
During incubation of ZXd2, an insoluble intermediate of the properdin system, with properdin
factors D and B a complex forms, designated ZX, which cleaves purified C3. Factor D is …

Effects of NeemAzal-U on survival, host infestation and reproduction of entomopathogenic and plant-parasitic nematodes: Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and …

J Meyer, L Ebssa, HM Poehling - Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection, 2012 - Springer
To determine the effects of neem active ingredients (azadirachtin) on the entomopathogenic
nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and the plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne …

Biochemistry and biological reactions of complement proteins

RM Stroud, JE Volanakis, S Nagasawa… - … of Proteins: Volume 3, 1979 - Springer
Complement research has evolved from the description and discovery of the plasma
proteins that make up the system to a new period in which understanding of the …

Interaction of the B-determinant of the third component of complement with amidino compounds

SS Asghar, RH Cormane - Immunochemistry, 1976 - Elsevier
Certain diamidines consisting of 2 amidino phenyl residues linked in paraposition by a
molecular bridge interacted with the B-determinant of the thrid component of complement …

The anaphylatoxins: formation, structure, function and control

HJ Müller-Eberhard - Molecular and Biological Aspects of the Acute …, 1976 - Springer
Although present evidence indicates that anaphylaxis due to IgE antibodies does not involve
the complement system, it has been established that complement participates in other forms …