Sentence examples for rates of complement from inspiring English sources

In the present study, we determined the rates of complement deficiencies among 244 HD patients using the novel functional assay that can allow us to measure the three complement activities simultaneously.

The present study is the first to demonstrate the functional activities of three complement pathways in parallel and the rates of several complement deficiencies among HD patients.

There were no significant differences in the rates of all complement deficiencies in the present study between the HD group and control group (Additional file 7).

The first important finding in the current study was that the rates of low functional complement activity and complement deficiency did not significantly differ between the HD patients and healthy controls, and the mortality rate did not significantly differ between the complement-deficient group and complement-sufficient group among the HD patients.

We examined prospectively the mortality rate in terms of complement deficiency among the HD patients from 2001 to 2006.

Although the five-year mortality rate of each complement-deficient group was lower than that of the complement-sufficient group, there were no significant differences between each complement-deficient group and the complement-sufficient group (Additional file 8).

The growth rate of the complementing strains was evaluated in the absence of DAP.

A high rate of anti-complement factor H autoantibodies (50%) justified the use of immunosuppression.

The growth constant (kG) was estimated by expressing the growth rates (dt-1) of complemented yeasts as a function of sulfate concentrations in the media, and by fitting the Michaelis-Menten equation to the data.

The longer incubation led to an increase in cell invasion in the absence of serum (Figure 4C); however, in the presence of serum, the rates of invasion of the complement-sensitive strains did no increase significantly.

Supportive evidence of the importance of the contribution of the activated complement system includes the decrease in cure rates of PDT-treated tumours following blockage of complement activation by the inhibitor FUT-175 (Korbelik, 2006), or specific inactivation of complement anaphylatoxins C3a and C5a (Cecic et al, 2005).