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COMPLEMENT is normally estimated by the hæmolytic method, for which at least four components must be present: whichever is present in least relative amount controls the ‘titre’. A simple method for estimating some or all of these components separately would be of value, particularly in clinical investigations. An immuno-diffusion method in agar1 has been applied to the semi-quantitative estimation of one of these, probably C′ 1, in human sera.
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ELLIS, H., GELL, P. Immunological Estimation of a Component of Complement. Nature 181, 1667–1668 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811667a0
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