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Complement dependent Cytotoxicity - (May/25/2009 )

What is the difference between Antibody-dependent Complement-mediated Cytotoxicity and Complement-dependent Cytotoxicity?

Making my question clearer : When we say CDC. does it mean both classical and alternative pathway or conventioanlly it only refers to classical pathway only? I suppose Ab-dependent complement mediated cytotoxicity refres to only classical pathway. Or, can they be used interchangeably?

-Nabi-

Nabi on May 25 2009, 08:21 PM said:

What is the difference between Antibody-dependent Complement-mediated Cytotoxicity and Complement-dependent Cytotoxicity?

Making my question clearer : When we say CDC. does it mean both classical and alternative pathway or conventioanlly it only refers to classical pathway only? I suppose Ab-dependent complement mediated cytotoxicity refres to only classical pathway. Or, can they be used interchangeably?


I believe both terms, ab-dependent CDC and CDC refer to the same phenomena.
And it refers only to the classical pathway (ab activated pathway)

-hugok-