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Measuring the 50% Haemolytic Complement (CH50) Activity of Serum
Published on: March 29, 2010
Preparing serum for functional complement assays
1Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ES, UK. pjl1000@cam.ac.uk
Journal of Immunological Methods
|November 14, 2009
Abstract:
To conserve full complement activity, a number of precautions need to be taken in preparing serum. This is particularly the case with mouse complement where the classical pathway is notoriously unstable.

