decomplementv.
/diːˈkɒmplɪmɛnt/ Immunology.
transitive. To inactivate the complement in (blood serum of an animal).
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1959 Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. 101 505/1 Guinea pigs are difficult to decomplement by injection of antigen-antibody combinations.
1966 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 135 585 A normal human serum was decomplemented in vitro by an antigen-antibody precipitate.
1976 Nature 11 Mar. 140/1 After 4 weeks, immune serum was collected and decomplemented at 56°C for 30 min.
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deˈcomplemented adj.
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1942 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 75 291 Equivalent volume ‘decomplemented’ serum.
1955 Internat. Arch. Allergy & Appl. Immunol. 7 8 The plasma of the decomplemented rats showed a reduction in their anaphylatoxin forming capacity.
1977 Lancet 3 Dec. 1152/2 Decomplemented sera from myelofibrosis patients were as effective as whole sera in their ability to induce healthy leucocytes to phagocytose immune complexes.
deˈcomplementing n. and adj.
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1955 Internat. Arch. Allergy & Appl. Immunol. 7 8 The release of histamine by the decomplementing immune system might lead to a histamine depletion.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Biochem. 43 756 The secondary aim of the study was to elucidate the effects of three decomplementing procedures on the electrophoretic patterns.
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