Antigens

Foreign molecules that trigger an immune response are called antigens. ❋ Carl Zimmer (2009)

Normally, your body forms antibodies against foreign substances that get into it known as antigens and renders them harmless so they cause no problem. ❋ The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (2005)

It became possible to understand that the true function of transplantation antigens is not to provide an obstacle to transplantation. ❋ Unknown (1997)

I determined that responsiveness to these or other similar antigens is controlled by dominant autosomal genes termed immune response (Ir) genes. ❋ Unknown (1981)

H antigens is of great practical importance, for example, in tissue transplantation (the transfer of tissues from one individual to another) and for understanding the relationship between the genetic constitution and disease. ❋ Unknown (1980)

It is not surprising, then, that many authors15 should have found that a state not yet formally distinguishable from tolerance should be brought about by the injection of purified protein antigens into young animals. ❋ Unknown (1964)

P.H. Maurer when they showed that large doses of soluble protein antigens failed to excite a response from adult rabbits. ❋ Unknown (1964)

Tolerance of more remotely foreign cellular antigens is more difficult but certainly not impossible to achieve. ❋ Unknown (1964)

The molecules which lead to the production of anti-substances are usually known as antigens, and each antigen has a specific combining affinity for its corresponding anti-substance, fitting it as a lock does a key. ❋ Various (N/A)

The cell membranes of fetal cells contain antigens determined by the genes inherited from the father.) ❋ Unknown (1980)

If you look at the number of antigens, which is basically kind of the small particles of virus and bacteria that are in vaccines that help boost immune response in kids, if you were a child in the 1960s, over 3,000 of these antigens were in vaccines. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Several other antigens are also under study, including an unusual form of a protein seen in some breast, colon, and stomach cancers, known as mucin, and a well-known protein called CEA (for "carcinoembryonic antigen"), also seen in breast, colon, and lung cancers. ❋ Unknown (1997)

The approach we undertook was to couple alcohol molecules to protein molecules to form large molecules called antigens. ❋ Kenneth Blum (1991)

Lymphoid tissue is concerned with the resistance against foreign proteins called antigens (immunity). ❋ Adityagawade (2010)

Antibodies are important in protecting body from specific substances called antigens; formed because of infection or other causes. ❋ Adityagawade (2010)

The antigens are a substance that when introduced into the body stimulates the production of an antibody. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These pathogens have molecules known as antigens that are recognized by the immune system. ❋ Unknown (2010)