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component of complement

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com·po·nent of complement (km-pnnt)
n.
Any one of the nine distinct protein units (designated C1 through C9) that are responsible for the immunological activities associated with complement.


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Edelson believes the third component of complement (C3) is reponsible for getting leishmania into the cell and decreasing the effects of respiratory burst once there.
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This repeated unit closely resembles an amino acid sequence, which appears only once, in the human blood plasma molecule called the C9 component of complement.
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