Gewurz H, Shin H S, Mergenhagen S E
J Exp Med. 1968 Nov 1;128(5):1049-57. doi: 10.1084/jem.128.5.1049.
Large amounts of each C'3, C'5, C'6, C'7, C'8, and C'9 were consumed when guinea pig serum was incubated with endotoxic lipopolysaccharide, zymosan, or preformed immune complexes. Since these C' components subserve several of the biological activities which follow the injection of endotoxins into experimental animals, these experiments support the hypothesis that certain biological effects induced by endotoxins may be mediated via the C' system, and may account for some of the known similarity in the reactivities evoked by endotoxins and immune complexes in vivo.
当豚鼠血清与内毒素脂多糖、酵母聚糖或预先形成的免疫复合物一起孵育时,大量的C3、C5、C6、C7、C8和C9会被消耗。由于这些补体成分参与了将内毒素注射到实验动物体内后产生的几种生物学活性,这些实验支持了这样一种假说,即内毒素诱导的某些生物学效应可能是通过补体系统介导的,并且可能解释了内毒素和免疫复合物在体内引起的反应中一些已知的相似性。