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51antigen — Abbreviation: Ag A macromolecule (usually a protein foreign to the organism), which elicits an immune response on first exposure to the immune system by stimulating the production of antibodies specific to its various antigenic determinants.… …
52antigen-presenting cell — APC. A cell that shows an antigen on its surface to other cells of the immune system. This is an important part of an immune response. Also called APC …
53antigen-presenting cell vaccine — A vaccine made of antigens and antigen presenting cells (APCs). Also called APC vaccine …
54antigen-presenting cell — ¦ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ¦ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun : any of various cells (as a macrophage or a B cell) that take up and process an antigen into a form that when displayed at the cell surface in combination with a molecule of the major histocompatibility… …
55iblandes et antigen for at øge antigenets immonogene effekt. Tilsammen udgør antigen og adjuvant den proteinbaserede vaccine. — Antigen Stof, der kan inducere et immunrespons i en organisme …
56carcinoembryonic antigen — Antigen found in blood of patients suffering from cancer of colon and some other diseases, that is otherwise normally found in foetal gut tissue …
57conjugated antigen — antigen produced by coupling a hapten to a protein carrier molecule through covalent bonds; when it induces immunization, the resultant immune response is directed against both the hapten and the carrier …
58acquired antigen — Antigen not genetically determined and sometimes transient …
59antigen — noun Etymology: German, from French antigène, from anticorps antibody + gène gen Date: 1908 any substance (as an immunogen or a hapten) foreign to the body that evokes an immune response either alone or after forming a complex with a larger… …
60antigen — a substance which induces the formation of antibodies; used to compare relationships among species based on those sharing the same or more antibodies (serum proteins) …