Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Contact, publication, and social network information about Harvard faculty and fellows.

Complement Activation

"Complement Activation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The sequential activation of serum COMPLEMENT PROTEINS to create the COMPLEMENT MEMBRANE ATTACK COMPLEX. Factors initiating complement activation include ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEXES, microbial ANTIGENS, or cell surface POLYSACCHARIDES.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Complement Activation" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Complement Activation" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 246 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 2009 and 2020
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.