antigen-antibody interaction
11Medical laboratory — Laboratory investigation redirects here. For the journal, see Laboratory Investigation (journal). Clinical laboratory in a Hospital setting showing several automated analysers. A medical laboratory or clinical laboratory is a laboratory where… …
12Richard A. Houghten — is a molecular biologist and founder of the journal Peptide Research , which was later merged with the International Journal of Peptide and Protein Research, to become the Journal of Peptide Research . His work mainly concerns peptide activity… …
13immune system — Anat. a diffuse, complex network of interacting cells, cell products, and cell forming tissues that protects the body from pathogens and other foreign substances, destroys infected and malignant cells, and removes cellular debris: the system… …
14immune system disorder — Introduction Disorders of the immune systemany of various failures in the body s defense mechanisms against infectious organisms (see table (Disorders of the immune system)). Disorders of immunity include immune deficiency diseases, such… …
15reaction — 1. The response of a muscle or other living tissue or organism to a stimulus. 2. The color change effected in litmus and certain other organic pigments by contact with substances such as acids or alkalies; also the property that such substances… …
16Immune system — A scanning electron microscope image of a single neutrophil (yellow), engulfing anthrax bacteria (orange). An immune system is a system of biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease by identifying and… …
17protein — proteinaceous /proh tee nay sheuhs, tee i nay /, proteinic, proteinous, adj. /proh teen, tee in/, n. 1. Biochem. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the… …
18test — 1. To prove; to try a substance; to determine the chemical nature of a substance by means of reagents. 2. A method of examination, as to determine the presence or absence of a definite disease or of some substance in any of the fluids, tissues,… …
19Precipitin — A precipitin is an antibody which can precipitate out of a solution. The Precipitin Reaction The precipitin reaction provided the first quantitative assay for antibody but is now made redundant by current technology and diagnostic techniques such …
20connective tissue disease — Introduction any of the diseases that affect human connective tissue. Diseases of the connective tissue can be divided into (1) a group of relatively uncommon genetic disorders (genetic disease, human) that affect the primary structure of… …
