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Words related to antigen

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  • cell-mediated immunity

    immunity independent of antibody but dependent on the recognition of antigen by T cells and their subsequent destruction of cells bearing the antigen or on the secretion by T cells of lymphokines that enhance the ability of phagocytes to eliminate the antigen.

  • alloantigen

    an antigen present in some but not all individuals of the same species, as those in different human blood groups.

  • antibody

    Antibodies are substances which a person's or an animal's body produces in their blood in order to destroy substances which carry disease.

  • autoantigen

    an antigen of one's own cells or cell products.

  • cross-reaction

    an immunologic reaction between a given antigen and an antibody or lymphokine that is specific for a different antigen resembling the first one.

  • heterophil

    Also, heterophilic. Immunology. (of an antibody) having an affinity for an antigen other than its specific antigen.
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