Superiority of Human Complement for Assaying Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides by Their Anticomplementary Activity

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Journal Experientia

Specialty Science

Date 1978 Sep 15

PMID 363447

Citations 3

Authors

J N Saddler

A C Wardlaw

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Abstract

In assaying bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) for anticomplementary activity, human complement (C) allowed detection of approximately 200 times smaller amounts of LPS than guinea-pigs C. Pig C was slightly inferior to human.

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