Activation of C3 via the alternative complement pathway results in fixation of C3b to the pneumococcal cell wall.
- 1 May 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The American Association of Immunologists in The Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 124 (5), 2502-2506
- https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.124.5.2502
Abstract
J A Winkelstein, A S Abramovitz, A Tomasz; Activation of C3 via the alternative complement pathway results in fixation of C3b to the pneumococcal cell wall., ThThis publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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