Sentence examples for amount of the complement from inspiring English sources

We found that complement opsonization of HIV-1 led to significantly enhanced MHCI presentation and this implies that a larger amount of the complement opsonized HIV-1 exits the endosomal compartment and gains access to the cytosol and MHCI pathway.

Additionally, the level of antibody bound correlated with the amount of activated complement, as detected by C4d staining on the surface of the cell.

The reaction was stopped with stop solution and optical density was measured at 450 nm with a spectrophotometer to determine the amount of SC5b-9 complement activation present on the different surfaces.

The frequencies and/or the amounts of the strongly complement-activating IgG2b, IgG3, and especially IgG2a antibodies [45] are low in the IC deposits of HgIA.

In these cell aggregates, which are strikingly similar to the clusters shown in Figure 5, B cells are clustered around 'debris' which contains a large amount of the injected Ab and complement component C3.

The amount of complement activation correlates with the colour intensity measured as OD405 nm.

The amount of complement activation is correlated with the color intensity and is measured in terms of absorbance, and then the combination of the levels of the three activities can indicate the deficient components.

However, the anti-complement effect needs only be local (i.e. in the immediate proximity of the mouth parts and midgut epithelium), and this drastically reduces the amount of complement to be neutralized.

In this case, Brazil nuts could be viewed as a functional food in that only a small amount of the nut is needed to complement the IAA pattern of legumes particularly well.

This effect probably indicates a reduced amount of the founder peptide, i.e., complement component 4a, with C4a [1337–1350] as an intermediate in further proteolytic processing.

Rather, the total amount of genome complements, i.e. less than diploid, is expected to induce the apoptotic response.