Buchner named "alexin" during an address to a meeting of the Medical Society (Aerztlichen Verein) in Munich, Germany on 3 June 1891. Buchner's address was published in: Buchner H (23 June 1891). "Kurze Uebersicht über die Entwicklung der Bacterienforschung seit Naegeli's Eingreifen in dieselbe" [Brief overview of the development of bacteriology since Naegeli's involvement in it]. Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift (in German). 38 (25): 435–437, (26): 454–456. From p. 437: "Es handelt sich demnach um Eiweisskörper einer neuen Kategorie, die mit irgend welchen bisher bekannten sich nicht identificieren lassen, und die man am besten deshalb mit einem neuen Namen, etwa als "Alexine" (d.h. Schutzstoffe, von αλέξειν abwehren, schützen) bezeichnet." (So it's a matter of protein of a new type, which cannot be identified with any [protein] which [has been] known until now, and which one therefore designates best with a new name, perhaps as "alexine" (i.e., protective stuff, from αλέξειν fight off, defend).)
Tzoumas N, Hallam D, Harris CL, Lako M, Kavanagh D, Steel DH (November 2020). "Revisiting the role of factor H in age-related macular degeneration: Insights from complement-mediated renal disease and rare genetic variants". Survey of Ophthalmology. 66 (2): 378–401. doi:10.1016/j.survophthal.2020.10.008. PMID33157112. S2CID226274874.
Kaufmann SH (July 2008). "Immunology's foundation: the 100-year anniversary of the Nobel Prize to Paul Ehrlich and Elie Metchnikoff". Nature Immunology. 9 (7): 705–12. doi:10.1038/ni0708-705. PMID18563076. S2CID205359637.
Sacks SH, Chowdhury P, Zhou W (October 2003). "Role of the complement system in rejection". Current Opinion in Immunology. 15 (5): 487–92. doi:10.1016/S0952-7915(03)00100-6. PMID14499254.
Brown EJ (1985). "Interaction of Gram-Positive Microorganisms with Complement". Bacteria and Complement. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. Vol. 121. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 159–187. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-45604-6_8. ISBN9783642456060. PMID3936681.
Dragon-Durey MA, Frémeaux-Bacchi V (November 2005). "Atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome and mutations in complement regulator genes". Springer Seminars in Immunopathology. 27 (3): 359–74. doi:10.1007/s00281-005-0003-2. PMID16189652. S2CID6330326.
Zipfel PF, Misselwitz J, Licht C, Skerka C (March 2006). "The role of defective complement control in hemolytic uremic syndrome". Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis. 32 (2): 146–54. doi:10.1055/s-2006-939770. PMID16575689. S2CID260316508.
Buchner named "alexin" during an address to a meeting of the Medical Society (Aerztlichen Verein) in Munich, Germany on 3 June 1891. Buchner's address was published in: Buchner H (23 June 1891). "Kurze Uebersicht über die Entwicklung der Bacterienforschung seit Naegeli's Eingreifen in dieselbe" [Brief overview of the development of bacteriology since Naegeli's involvement in it]. Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift (in German). 38 (25): 435–437, (26): 454–456. From p. 437: "Es handelt sich demnach um Eiweisskörper einer neuen Kategorie, die mit irgend welchen bisher bekannten sich nicht identificieren lassen, und die man am besten deshalb mit einem neuen Namen, etwa als "Alexine" (d.h. Schutzstoffe, von αλέξειν abwehren, schützen) bezeichnet." (So it's a matter of protein of a new type, which cannot be identified with any [protein] which [has been] known until now, and which one therefore designates best with a new name, perhaps as "alexine" (i.e., protective stuff, from αλέξειν fight off, defend).)
Ehrlich P, Morgenroth J (29 May 1899). "Ueber Haemolysine" [On hemolysin]. Berliner klinische Wochenschrift (in German). 36 (22): 481–486. From p. 483: "Es sprechen diese Versuche nach unseren früheren Erfahrungen dafür, dass auch hier in dem Serum ein Analogon des Immunkörpers, ein mit zwei haptophoren Gruppen versehener Complex, der als Zwischenkörper bezeichnet werde, und ein Addiment, das wir im Folgenden mit dem allgemeineren Ausdruck Complement bezeichnen wollen, besteht, und dass von den Blutkörperchen vorweigend der Zwischenkörper gebunden worden ist." (According to our earlier experiences, these experiments indicate (1) that here too there exists in the serum an analog of the immune bodies — a complex [that's] provided with two haptophoric groups, [one of] which may be designated as an "intermediate body" and [the other, as] an addiment [i.e., a component of a hemolysin that's induced by an antigen (see p. 481)], which we will designate in the following with the more general term "complement" — and (2) that the intermediate body has been bound mainly by the blood cells.)
Tzoumas N, Hallam D, Harris CL, Lako M, Kavanagh D, Steel DH (November 2020). "Revisiting the role of factor H in age-related macular degeneration: Insights from complement-mediated renal disease and rare genetic variants". Survey of Ophthalmology. 66 (2): 378–401. doi:10.1016/j.survophthal.2020.10.008. PMID33157112. S2CID226274874.
Kaufmann SH (July 2008). "Immunology's foundation: the 100-year anniversary of the Nobel Prize to Paul Ehrlich and Elie Metchnikoff". Nature Immunology. 9 (7): 705–12. doi:10.1038/ni0708-705. PMID18563076. S2CID205359637.
Sacks SH, Chowdhury P, Zhou W (October 2003). "Role of the complement system in rejection". Current Opinion in Immunology. 15 (5): 487–92. doi:10.1016/S0952-7915(03)00100-6. PMID14499254.
Brown EJ (1985). "Interaction of Gram-Positive Microorganisms with Complement". Bacteria and Complement. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. Vol. 121. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 159–187. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-45604-6_8. ISBN9783642456060. PMID3936681.
Dragon-Durey MA, Frémeaux-Bacchi V (November 2005). "Atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome and mutations in complement regulator genes". Springer Seminars in Immunopathology. 27 (3): 359–74. doi:10.1007/s00281-005-0003-2. PMID16189652. S2CID6330326.
Zipfel PF, Misselwitz J, Licht C, Skerka C (March 2006). "The role of defective complement control in hemolytic uremic syndrome". Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis. 32 (2): 146–54. doi:10.1055/s-2006-939770. PMID16575689. S2CID260316508.
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Tzoumas N, Hallam D, Harris CL, Lako M, Kavanagh D, Steel DH (November 2020). "Revisiting the role of factor H in age-related macular degeneration: Insights from complement-mediated renal disease and rare genetic variants". Survey of Ophthalmology. 66 (2): 378–401. doi:10.1016/j.survophthal.2020.10.008. PMID33157112. S2CID226274874.
Kaufmann SH (July 2008). "Immunology's foundation: the 100-year anniversary of the Nobel Prize to Paul Ehrlich and Elie Metchnikoff". Nature Immunology. 9 (7): 705–12. doi:10.1038/ni0708-705. PMID18563076. S2CID205359637.
Dragon-Durey MA, Frémeaux-Bacchi V (November 2005). "Atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome and mutations in complement regulator genes". Springer Seminars in Immunopathology. 27 (3): 359–74. doi:10.1007/s00281-005-0003-2. PMID16189652. S2CID6330326.
Zipfel PF, Misselwitz J, Licht C, Skerka C (March 2006). "The role of defective complement control in hemolytic uremic syndrome". Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis. 32 (2): 146–54. doi:10.1055/s-2006-939770. PMID16575689. S2CID260316508.
