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Immune response stimulus
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antigen
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates the production of antibodies
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE specific ▪ New nosodes have also been added to the armamentarium and special remedies prepared from specific antigens and toxic substances. ▪ There is, however, no logical reason why a vaccine for protection against ...
Usage examples of antigen.
A survivor was important because he or she would have developed an antibody to combat the virus, or antigen.
According to one view, a hole is poked in the receptor membrane, launching depolarization, but other workers believe that the substance may become bound to the cells possessing specific receptors for it and then may just sit there, somehow displaying its signal from a distance, after the fashion of antigens on immune cells.
Proteins in Retroviral Vectors: Implications for Major Histocompatability Complex Antigen Activity.
Induction of oral tolerance in splenocyte recipients toward pretransplant antigens ameliorates chronic graft versus host disease in a murine model.
Anything that stimulates the production of antibodies is called an antigen.
So this was a free clinic and they screwed up the test and I came up positive with surface antigens and hepatitis.
Squark, the Wabble Effect, the Antigens, his own Theory of Subsequence.
Therefore, down on cellular level, your white blood corpuscles and antigens are waging relentless, violent war on invaders.
However, the lab boys tell me all body fluids contain antigens that indicate the blood type for that person.
Proteins in Retro-viral Vectors: Implications for Major Histocompatability Complex Antigen Activity.
The human body attacks embedded foreign objects through sophisticated immune reactions: inflammatory responses, antigens, macrophages, lymphocytes, fibroblasts.
What she had done instead was identify the short string of amino acids, peptides, that folded up to form the actual antigen of the viral protein, map out the amino acid sequence, and then bio-facture a combination of different peptides, matching different regions of the viral protein, in the hope that one or more of the synthetic peptides would fold up to mimic an antigenic site present on the viral protein.
The function of these molecules is to pick up bits of material inside a cell, peptides or antigens.
Valda laughed just behind him again, and she laughed harder when he tried to explain the work he had been doing on particlesdescribing the Squark, the Wabble Effect, the Antigens, his own Theory of Subsequence.
I've brought in plague antigens from Tampa, and I'm having serums made up from avirulent strains flown in right now from Los Angeles.