
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:title>Letter from Manfred M. Mayer, Johns Hopkins University to Michael Heidelberger</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>Complement System Proteins</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Mayer here responds to Heidelberger&apos;s comments on the draft of an article by Mayer on the kinetics (the rate and process) of hemolysis, the rupture of the membrane of red blood cells (erythrocytes) and the release of hemoglobin, caused, in Meyer&apos;s experiments, by antibodies in the form of complement-dependent lysis (rupture).  Complement, a complex system of over twenty serum proteins, plays an essential enzymatic role in host defense mechanisms against invading organisms.</dc:description>
  <dc:publisher>Produced: 16 July 1948</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Johns Hopkins University</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Johns Hopkins University</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Mayer, Manfred M.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:type>Letters (correspondence)</dc:type>
  <dc:format>Archival Materials</dc:format>
  <dc:format>Text</dc:format>
  <dc:format>2 pages</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>nlm:nlmuid-101584940X171-doc</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>101584940X171</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X171</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>Profiles ID: DHBBLL</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>English</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>Profiles in Science</dc:relation>
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