Title:

Letter from D. Carleton Gajdusek, The Children's Hospital (Cincinnati, Ohio) to Michael Heidelberger

Creator:

Gajdusek, D. Carleton (Daniel Carleton), 1923-2008
Children's Hospital (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Recipient:

Heidelberger, Michael

Date:

28 February 1948

Description:

Gajdusek here discussed experimental and clinical approaches to studying the connection between disease, in particular nephritis, and the level of complement in sera. Gajdusek hypothesized that complement levels declined with the onset of disease, and rose again during recovery. Complement is a complex system of over twenty serum proteins that play an essential enzymatic role in host defense mechanisms against invading organisms.

Location:

Box: 2. Folder: 23

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of D. Carleton Gajdusek.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Complement System Proteins and Serology

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Relation:

Letter from D. Carleton Gajdusek, The Children's Hospital (Cincinnati, Ohio) to Michael Heidelberger, 1948
Letter from Michael Heidelberger to D. Carleton Gajdusek, The Children's Hospital (Cincinnati, Ohio), 1948

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

DHBBGQ

NLM ID:

101584940X96

Profiles Collection:

The Michael Heidelberger Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X96

Story Section:

Antigens and Antibodies: Heidelberger and The Rise of Quantitative Immunochemistry, 1928-1954