The availability of techniques for establishment of primary, long term monolayers of breast
milk macrophages and blood monocytes permitted a direct comparison of biosynthetic …

The net production of the complement protein C2, C4, and factor B differ among
mononuclear phagocytes from peripheral blood and different tissues in experimental …

Macrophages secrete a wide variety of substances, including several that may play a role in
inflammatory reactions (prostaglandins, pyrogen, interferon), lysozyme, various acid …

The most important methods used at present in studies on complement (C) biosynthesis can
be briefly summarized as follows. The titration of complement components aims at the …

Purified cleavage products of the guinea-pig complement component C3, namely C3b and
C3a, interact with guinea-pig and mouse macrophages in culture to induce a dose-and time …

Complement Proteins and Macrophages II. The Secretion of Factor B by Lipopolysaccharide-
Stimulated Macrophages Akio MIYAMA, * Y Page 1 Microbiol. Immunol. Vol. 24 (12), 1223-1232 …

Monocytes, synovial fluid (SF) and synovial membrane (SM) macrophages from patients
with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were maintained in short-term tissue culture for up to 10 days …

Synthesis of complement proteins by mononuclear phagocytes in vitro was examined in
long-term cultures. Normal monocytes synthesized functionally active C2 and factors B and …

The existence of a leukocyte complement system is suggested by the findings that certain
lymphocytes and mononuclear phagocytes activate complement, express membrane …

Short-term cultures of human peripheral blood monocytes were shown to synthesize the
alternative pathway complement components C3, factors B (B) and D (D), and properdin, the …