05 Kang 144-148
نویسندگان
چکیده
Complement 9 deficiency is the most common complement deficiency in Japan, but it is rare in western countries. Because of Korea’s geographical proximity to Japan, C9 deficiency in Korea has also been assumed to be common although this has never before been proven. We investigated complement deficiency in the serum samples of 6,159 Korean hospital outpatients. The deficiency was screened by a sensitive hemolytic assay and was confirmed by immunoassay of each complement component. Three C9-deficient individuals were found, giving an incidence of 0.049%, which is lower than that in Japan but still a considerable figure. Complement deficiencies other than that of C9 were not detected in this study. It is therefore necessary to consider the possibility of C9 deficiency in the interpretation of unexpectedly low complement-mediated hemolytic activity in East Asians. (received 2 November 2004; accepted 31 January 2005)
منابع مشابه
A qualitative and quantitative electron microscopic study of the neurons in the primate motor and somatic sensory cortices.
R esults 144 {a) Qualitative study of the motor cortex 144 (i) Pyramidal cells 144 (ii) Betz cells 144 (iii) Large stellate cells 145 (iv) Small stellate cells 146 (v) Martinotti cells 147 {b) Qualitative study of area Zb of somatic sensory cortex 148 (i c) Quantitative study of motor cortex and area of somatic sensory cortex 148 (i) Pre-classification analysis 149 (ii) Results classified by ce...
متن کاملThe substrate-binding site in the lactose permease of Escherichia coli.
Site-directed N-ethylmaleimide labeling was studied with Glu-126 and/or Arg-144 mutants in lactose permease containing a single, native Cys residue at position 148 in the substrate-binding site. Replacement of either Glu-126 or Arg-144 with Ala markedly decreases Cys-148 reactivity, whereas interchanging the residues, double-Ala replacement, or replacement of Arg-144 with Lys or His does not al...
متن کاملReaction Rates for 146Sm Production in Supernovae
Correlations of the 142 Nd/ 144 Nd ratio with the Sm/Nd ratio in some meteorites have been previously explained by the-decay of long-lived 146 Sm. In order to account for these observations, a necessary production ratio for 146 Sm/ 144 Sm in the-process of 0.1{0.7 was deduced. The ratio (148 Gd(,n) 147 Gd)/(148 Gd(,) 144 Sm), which plays the dominant role in the production of 146 Sm/ 144 Sm, ha...
متن کاملOn circulant and two-circulant weighing matrices
We employ theoretical and computational techniques to construct new weighing matrices constructed from two circulants. In particular, we construct W (148, 144), W (152, 144), W (156, 144) which are listed as open in the second edition of the Handbook of Combinatorial Designs. We also fill a missing entry in Strassler’s table with answer ”YES”, by constructing a circulant weighing matrix of orde...
متن کاملDevelopment and Application of the Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment Tool
CONTENTS Introduction __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 128 Overview of the AGWA Tool ____________________________________________________________________________ 129 Hydrologic Models ________________________________________________________________________________________ 132 KINEROS2 _____________________________...
متن کامل