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Reid, Kenneth Bannerman Milne was born on September 22, 1943 in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Son of John and Maria Reid.
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Complement is a group of proteins that form the principal effector arm of the humoral immune system. Today more than 30 proteins have been shown to be closely involved with the complement system. By a series of specific activation steps, which are triggered by the presence of foreign entities, these proteins mediate a range of activities such as the initiation of inflammation, clearance of immune complexes, and regulation of the immune response. The use of recombinant DNA techniques has allowed the rapid determination of the primary structures of nearly all the known complement components, control proteins, and receptors, associated with the system, as well as their gene structure and chromosome location within the human genome. This text presents an introduction to the complement system which covers the basic biochemistry and activation pathway, and discusses the different families of proteins in the system and how they interact with each other to mediate the various functions in host defence.
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Reid, Kenneth Bannerman Milne was born on September 22, 1943 in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Son of John and Maria Reid.
Bachelor of Science with honors, Aberdeen University, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Aberdeen University, 1968. Master of Arts (honorary), Oxford University, 1986.
Science officer fisheries biochemistry research unit, Aberdeen U., 1968-1969; Imperial Chemical Industries research fellow department biochemistry, U. Oxford, England, 1969-1970; scientist immunochemistry unit, Medical Research Council, University of Oxford, 1970-1984; deputy director, Medical Research Council, University of Oxford, 1984-1985; director, Medical Research Council, University of Oxford, since 1986. Member editorial board European Journal Immunology, since 1987, Immunology, since 1990, Journal Immunol. Methods, since 1989, Bio-chemical Journal.
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Fellow European Organization for Molecular Biology. Member Bio-chemical Society (Wellcome Trust award 1981), British Society Immunology.
Married Margery Robertson Gilmour, September 10, 1969. Children: Ailsa J., Moira M., Donald K.G.