Sentence examples for measure of complement from inspiring English sources

Thus, we used the C3d assay as another measure of complement induction by HLA-Ab.

The relative measure of complement activity was estimated by computing the difference between the maximum time of measurement (equal to 4 h) and the time necessary to kill 50%% of E. coli by complement (in h).

Furthermore, previous studies have suggested that C3adesArg is readily redistributed between intravascular and extravascular compartments and may be misleading as a measure of complement activation (12), whereas SC5b-9 has a longer half-life in vivo and is therefore considered to be a more reliable measure of in vivo complement activation (19).

Moreover, it can be shown that the measure μ can be naturally and uniquely extended to the set of all measurable sets, where the measure defined has corresponding nice properties (so that, e.g., the measure of the complement of E is 1 − μ(E), if E ⊆ F then μ(E) ≤ μ(F), etc).

Sorensen et al. [ 22] measured levels of complement split products in the sera of these subjects and found differences between CFS and control subjects in C4a after exercise challenge.

BALF and lung tissue were obtained for measuring levels of complement activation (C4b/c in BALF), lung injury (total protein levels in BALF), and inflammation (IL-6 levels in lung tissue).

The use of a generic health measure to complement the disease specific health measure is typically advocated for the appraisal of the overall impact of MS. The evaluation of HRQL of persons with MS has been primarily in clinical or patient study groups.

Complement activation was measured by deposition of complement component C3b on immobilised mannan.

In reality, the use of multiple signatures does not make the actual assay more difficult since it is one measure of the full complement of genes that is made and then the activity of the various signatures is measured from this gene expression data.

For that reason, a panel of chemokine transcripts (or chemokine proteins) might be predicted to provide a measure of a broader complement of molecular influences that result in flares of disease activity or augmented inflammation in a target organ.

The findings support the validity of measurements of serum complement activation and of imaging complement activation as ways of measuring and monitoring MS disease activity in vivo.