Examples of complement system in the following topics:
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- The complement system helps antibodies and phagocytic cells clear pathogens from an organism.
- The serum complement system, which represents a chief component of innate immunity, not only participates in inflammation but also acts to enhance the adaptive immune response.
- The complement system plays a crucial role in the innate defense against common pathogens.
- The complement system can be activated through three major pathways: classical, lectin, and alternative.
- The finding that B lymphocytes bound C3 raised the question as early as in the 1970s as to whether the complement system was involved in adaptive immune responses.
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- Around 20 soluble proteins comprise the complement system, which helps destroy extracellular microorganisms that have invaded the body.
- Using a combination of cellular and molecular attacks, the innate immune system identifies the nature of a pathogen and responds with inflammation, phagocytosis (where a cell engulfs a foreign particle), cytokine release, destruction by NK cells, and/or a complement system.
- In this concept, we will discuss the complement system.
- An array of approximately 20 types of soluble proteins, called a complement system, functions to destroy extracellular pathogens.
- The complement system is so named because it is complementary to the antibody response of the adaptive immune system.
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- The complement system is the ability of antibodies and phagocytic cells to remove pathogens from an organism.
- The complement system or "complements" the ability of antibodies and phagocytic cells to clear pathogens from an organism.
- The complement system consists of a number of small proteins found in the blood, generally synthesized by the liver as a part of the acute phase reaction during systemic inflammation (from TNF-alpha release).
- There are three different pathways by which the complement system may occur.
- The classical complement pathway is the main pathway by which the complement system occurs.
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- The complement system helps or "complements" the ability of antibodies and phagocytic cells to clear pathogens from an organism.
- The complement system helps or "complements" the ability of antibodies and phagocytic cells to clear pathogens from an organism.
- Over 25 proteins and protein fragments make up the complement system, including serum proteins, serosal proteins, and cell membrane receptors.
- Three biochemical pathways activate the complement system: the classical complement pathway, the alternative complement pathway, and the lectin pathway.
- The proteins and glycoproteins that constitute the complement system are synthesized by the liver hepatocytes.
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- In autoimmune heart diseases, the body's immune defense system mistakes its own cardiac antigens as foreign, and attacks them.
- Autoimmune heart diseases result when the body's own immune defense system mistakes cardiac antigens as foreign, and attacks them, leading to inflammation of the heart as a whole, or in parts.
- The process is aided by neutrophils, the complement system, and tumor necrosis factor alpha.
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- IgG and IgM antibodies bind to these antigens to form complexes that activate the classical pathway of complement activation to eliminate cells presenting foreign antigens (which are usually, but not in this case, pathogens).
- The membrane attack complex (MAC; ) is typically formed on the surface of pathogenic bacterial cells as a result of the activation of the alternative pathway and the classical pathway of the complement system, and it is one of the effector proteins of the immune system.
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- Immunodeficiency is a state where the immune system's ability to fight infectious disease is impaired or absent.
- Most cases of immunodeficiency are acquired (secondary) but some people are born with a defective immune system, or primary immunodeficiency.
- As an anti-rejection protocol, transplant patients take medications to suppress their immune system, as do some patients suffering from an over-active immune system.
- Complement deficiency is where the function of the complement system is deficient.
- HIV directly infects a small number of T helper cells, and also impairs other immune system responses indirectly.
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- Complement fixation is a method that demonstrates antibody presence in patient serum.
- The complement fixation test consists of two components.
- The first component is an indicator system that uses combination of sheep red blood cells, complement-fixing antibody such as immunoglobulin G produced against the sheep red blood cells and an exogenous source of complement usually guinea pig serum.
- These two components of the complement fixation method are tested in sequence.
- If complement has not been bound by an antigen-antibody complex formed from the patient serum and known antigens, it is available to bind to the indicator system of sheep cells and anti-sheep antibody.
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- A hypersensitivity reaction refers to an overreactive immune system triggered by allergies and autoimmunity.
- Hypersensitivity (also called hypersensitivity reaction) refers to undesirable reactions produced by the normal immune system, including allergies and autoimmunity, and are commonly mediated by antibodies.
- Mediators: IgM or IgG (complement fixation).
- Mediators: IgG (complement).
- Mediators: IgM or IgG (complement).
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- The literal complement of a pitch-class set is every pitch not included in that set.
- The complement of any n-chord is always a 12-n chord.
- Its literal complement is all of the notes not a part of it: [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,T,E].
- When we put both of those pitch-class sets in prime form, the two are said to be abstract complement:
- Below, you'll see that the set (012345678) has exactly 6 more of each type of interval class than does its complement (012).