A nucleoprotein complement-fixation test to assist in the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus is evaluated. There were 25 positive reactions in 600 serum specimens tested.

A complement test is a blood test that measures the activity of a group of proteins in the bloodstream. It's often used to help monitor people being treated for autoimmune diseases like lupus and ...

The complement-fixation tests, with antigens 20aand 30, failed to support the previous report of Roach et al., 13 who had found that fixation occurred in 77 per cent of cases of multiple sclerosis ...

NORMAL guinea pig serum is the most common source of complement for the complement-fixation test, and may be used fresh or, more commonly, preserved either by freeze-drying or by Richardson's method1.

Citrate blood was taken from 18 healthy volunteers by brachial vein puncture and anti-adenoviral antibody titers were determined by ELISA, complement fixation test (CBR) and neutralizing assay ...

J. V. Cooke, Complement Fixation with Acid-Fast Bacteria. I. ... Continue with Google Continue with Microsoft Find my institution . or. ... Climate Change and Food Security A Test of U.S. Leadership ...