Complement in trauma—Traumatised complement?

C3 and C4 Complement Levels in Iron Deficiency Anemia

Background and Objectives: Complement proteins are some of the most important plasma proteins of the innate immune system. Impaired immune function is reported in subjects who are iron deficient, and there are documents that these patients are prone to infection. This study was conducted to show whether serum C3 and C4 complement change in adult nonpregnant female with iron deficient anemia or ...

Indirect Complement Fixation in Foot-and-Mouth Disease

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...

Complement

to reduce stimulation to a minimum or to achieve "optimal" states of stimulation. The author's contention is that there is a drive for optimal levels of stimulation that leads organisms to avoid states where sensory variation is either too high or too low. This "sensoristatic drive" is a state of cortical arousal that is monitored by the reticular formation which serves as a regulator adjusting...

The Complement of a D-Tree is Pure Shellable