The concentrations of the fourth component of complement and of the C1 inactivator in synovial fluid from arthritic patients.
- 1 June 1972
- journal article
- Vol. 11 (2), 201-7
Abstract
The concentration of the fourth component (C4) of complement (C) in synovial fluid was immunochemically determined in forty-nine cases of arthritis. The lowest C4 values were found in the patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), in particular those with depressed synovial fluid C values (and positive rheumatoid factor tests), whereas the highest were obtained in cases of non-rheumatoid arthritis (pelvospondylites ossificans, Reiter's disease and psoriasis arthropathica) and in the majority of the sero-negative RA patients. Low C4 values also proved closely associated with low values for the third component (C3), and with pronounced conversion of this component. The C[unk] inactivator (immunochemically determined) of the synovial fluid which was correlated with the albumin concentration, did not vary with total C, C4 or C3.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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