Open AccessThe complement fixation reaction. Chernokhvostov (Jour. Exp. Biol., 1927, No. 20)
Author(s) -
Arthur Weinstein
Publication year - 1928
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj96344
Subject(s) - complement fixation test , complement (music) , antitoxin , chemistry , fixation (population genetics) , biology , biochemistry , toxin , immunology , antibody , serology , complementation , gene , phenotype
Complement fixation both in specific reactions (toxin and antitoxin) and in nonspecific reactions (colloidal metal solutions), as well as in the Wassermann reaction, is due to the whole complement rather than its separate fraction. Specific in all these reactions is not the fixation of complement, but those processes that lead to the formation of physicochemical complexes (immunobiologically bound or not) capable of fixing (adsorbing) complement.