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The only information on the participation of the complement system in the immune response is based on experiments with cobra venom treated mice and chicken (1,2). In these experiments, it was shown that C3 depleted mice were not capable of reacting normally to an antigenic stimulus. However, cobra venom treatment before immunization most probably does not only deplete the animals of C3, but has in addition other unpredictable consequences.
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Opferkuch, W., Horn, W., Falkenberg, F., Kaufmann, S.H.E. (1979). Modulation of the Immune Response by Pretreatment of Antigen with Complement. In: Müller-Ruchholtz, W., Müller-Hermelink, H.K. (eds) Function and Structure of the Immune System. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 114. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9101-6_30
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