The New England Journal of Medicine

The Nucleoprotein Complement-Fixation Test in the Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

A gamma-globulin factor in the serum of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus that reacts with isolated cell nuclei 1 or nucleoprotein 2,3 has been detected in many ways. 4 The standard method of ...
Healio

Complement fragment test should cease if no elevated fragments found

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. FORT WORTH, Texas — In patients with suspected lupus, ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Attempted Cultivation of Spirochaeta Myelophthora and a Test of the Validity of the Complement-Fixation Test in Multiple Sclerosis

MULTIPLE sclerosis was recognized as a clinical entity early in the nineteenth century by Charcot. Since then its pathology and clinical symptomatology have been defined, but the etiology of this ...
Nature

A rapid, comprehensive system for assaying DNA repair activity and cytotoxic effects of DNA-damaging reagents

DNA repair systems protect cells from genomic instability and carcinogenesis. Therefore, assays for measuring DNA repair activity are valuable, not only for clinical diagnoses of DNA repair deficiency ...
JSTOR Daily

Testing Vaccines by the Complement Fixation Test for Avian Leukosis Virus Using a Short Cell Culture Passage Interval

T. A. Koski, D. R. Wenger and D. D. Oshel The current complement fixation for avian leukosis (COFAL) test for screening veterinary vaccines requires a 21-day maintenance period of chick embryo (CE) ...