Kazan medical journalKazan medical journal0368-48142587-9359Eco-Vector9634410.17816/kazmj96344MiscellaneousThe complement fixation reaction. Chernokhvostov (Jour. Exp. Biol., 1927, No. 20)WeinsteinA.info@eco-vector.com150319282433763761301202213012022Copyright © 1928, Eco-Vector1928<p>Complement fixation both in specific reactions (toxin and antitoxin) and in nonspecific reactions (colloidal metal solutions), as well as in the Wassermann reaction, is due to the whole complement rather than its separate fraction. Specific in all these reactions is not the fixation of complement, but those processes that lead to the formation of physicochemical complexes (immunobiologically bound or not) capable of fixing (adsorbing) complement.</p>Kazan Medical archiveКазанский медицинский архив