... opsonin may still be present after the serum is heated at 55 ° C. , as has been shown by Dean and others ; and Muir and Martin have shown that this thermostable immune - opsonin ( bacteriotropin of Neufeld ) has all the specific ...

... opsonin for the infecting agent , in the typical at- tack , terminating promptly in recovery without complications , shows a marked general resemblance to the opsonin or antibody curve after a single antigen in- jection in the normal ...

... opsonin receptor expression . [ Imax ] is a concentration of inflammatory mediator sufficient to pro- duce maximum opsonin receptor expres- sion Rmax / P . Phagocyte receptor ligation of opsonins , such as complement and / or ...

... opsonin theory engendered controversy and some ridicule . George Ber- nard Shaw , a good friend of Wright's , included both opsonin and the man who conceived it in a play , The Doctor's Dilemma . In the first act Sir Colenso Ridgeon , a ...

... opsonin this serum contained was thermo - cytosis by employing red cells and serum from the same case labile . In each case 1 volume of the serum or diluted serum was mixed with 1 volume of a 10 per cent . suspension of normal red cells ...

... opsonin . The point of opsonic extinction for the normal infant serum and the poliomyelitis coccus was 1 : 30 in every instance ; for three cases of acute poliomyelitis it was 1 : 120 ; for three others 1 : 240 , and for the patient ...

... opsonin " it is possible to gauge the in- dividual's resistance to invasion by the tubercle bacillus -and upon the intelligent interpretation of the move- ments of the index recording the amount of this tuber- culo - opsonin depends the ...

... opsonin ( feast preparer ) . By heating the normal serum to 60 ° or 65 ° C. for fifteen minutes its opsonin is destroyed , and it is now no longer capable of sensitising bacteria towards leucocytes . If , on the other hand , the ...

... opsonin ( or a part of it , according to some ) can be " washed away " rather easily . Sawtschencko believes that hæmo - opsonin acts normally by agglutinating the red cells and leucocytes together , and Neufeld has certainly proved ...

... opsonin present in the blood . That the amount of opsonin in the blood is limited may be shown by digesting suc- cessive batches of bacilli with blood serum , when it will be found that the later digestions are no longer ingested by ...