1. The Benefits of Complement Measurements for the Clinical Practice Anne Grunenwald and Lubka T. Roumenina 2. Method for Depletion of IgG and IgM from Human Serum as Naive Complement Source Seline A. Zwarthoff, Simone Magnoni, Piet C. Aerts, Kok P. M. van Kessel, and Suzan H.M. Rooijakkers 3. Quantification of Complement Proteins with Special Reference to C1q: Multiplex vs ELISA vs Rocket Immunoelectrophoresis vs Nephelometry Kerstin Sandholm, Barbro Persson, Sliva Abdalla, Camilla Mohlin, Bo Nilsson, and Kristina N Ekdahl 4. C3dg Quantification by PEG-precipitation and ELISA or TRIFMA Anne Troldborg and Jens Christian Jensenius 5. Quantification of Porcine Complement Activation Fragment C3a by a Neoepitope Based Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Per H. Nilsson, Kristin Pettersen, Martin Oppermann, Espen Skjeflo, Hilde Fure, Dorte Christiansen, and Tom Eirik Mollnes 6. Sheep Erythrocytes Preparation for Hemolytic Tests Exploring Complement Functional Activities Melchior Chabannes, Pauline Bordereau, Paula Vieira Martins, and Marie-Agnès Dragon-Durey 7. Hemolytic Tests Exploring Factor H Functional Activities Melchior Chabannes, Shambhuprasad K Togarsimalemath, and Marie-Agnès Dragon-Durey 8. Functional Hemolytic Test for Complement Alternative Pathway Convertase Activity Marloes A.H.M. Michels, Nicole C.A.J. van de Kar, Elena B. Volokhin, and Bert (L) P.W.J. van den Heuvel 9. Complement C3 Deposition on Endothelial Cells Revealed by Flow Cytometry Idris Boudhabhay, Anne Grunenwald, and Lubka T. Roumenina 10. Anti-C1q Auto-Antibodies: Standard Quantification and Innovative ELISA Kinga Csorba, Lucias Schirmbeck, Denise Dubler, and Marten Trendelenburg 11. Anti-C1-Inhibitor Auto-Antibodies Detection by ELISA Chiara Suffritti, Sonia Caccia, Silvia Berra, Debora Parolin, and Marco Cicardi 12. Anti-ficolin-2 and anti-ficolin-3 Autoantibodies Detection by ELISA Chantal Dumestre-Pérard and Nicole M. Thielens 13. Detection of anti-C3b Autoantibodies by ELISA Maria Radanova, Lubka Roumenina, and Vasil Vasilev 14. Detection of Complement Factor B Autoantibodies by ELISA Mihály Józsi and Barbara Uzonyi 15. Detection of C3 Nephritic Factor by Hemolytic Assay Melchior Chabannes, Véronique Frémeaux-Bacchi, Sophie Chauvet 16. Detection of Genetic Rearrangements inthe Regulators of Complement Activation RCA Cluster by High Throughput Sequencing and MLPA Jesús García-Fernández, Susana Vilches-Arroyo, Leticia Olavarrieta, Julián Pérez-Pérez, and Santiago Rodríguez de Córdoba 17. Complement Detection in Mouse Kidneys by Immunofluorescence Jennifer Laskowski and Joshua M. Thurman 18. Complement Detection in Human Tumors by Immunohistochemistry and Immunofluorescence Marie V. Daugan, Margot Revel, Laetitia Lacroix, Catherine Sautès-Fridman, Wolf H. Fridman, and Lubka T. Roumenina 19. Analysis Of The Ligand Recognition Specificities Of Human Ficolins Using Surface Plasmon Resonance Nicole M. Thielens, Evelyne Gout, Monique Lacroix, Jean-Baptiste Reiser, and Christine Gaboriaud 20. Methods for Assessment of Interactions of Proteins with Heme - Application for Complement Proteins and Immunoglobulins Margot Revel and Jordan D. Dimitrov &nbs