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Letter from Michael Heidelberger to D. Carleton Gajdusek, The Children's Hospital (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Letter from Michael Heidelberger to D. Carleton Gajdusek, The Children's Hospital (Cincinnati, Ohio)
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Heidelberger, Michael Gajdusek, D. Carleton (Daniel Carleton), 1923-2008 Children's Hospital (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Heidelberger here informed Gajdusek that a colleague had agreed to carry out the titrations of sera provided by Gajdusek for studying the connection between disease, in particular nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys), and the level of complement, proteins that play an essential role in host defense mechanisms.
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