Volume 1 - Overview of the Complement System
Objectives:
Following this lecture, students should be able to:
- Define the complement system
- List the three complement pathways
- Describe at what point the three pathways converge
- List which class and subclasses of antibody can bind complement
- Define how complement is important in the CDC assay
- List reasons to test for complement
- Describe the role of complement in transplantation