Antitoxins

Word ANTITOXINS
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Definitions and meanings of "Antitoxins"

What do we mean by antitoxins?

An antibody that is capable of neutralising specific toxins that are causative agents of disease.

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The word "antitoxins" in example sentences

Passive immunization means administering antibodies or antitoxins from another source to protect the recipient. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The biological universe was full of molecules picking out their partners like clever locks designed to fit a key: toxins clinging inseparably to antitoxins, dyes that highlighted only particular parts of cells, chemical stains that could nimbly pick out one class of germs from a mixture of microbes. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

Research was ongoing into a wide array of ingredients: antibiotics, lipids, antitoxins, histamines, thiols, hormones, steroids and practically every antioxidant known to humankind. ❋ Joan Brady (2010)

A few years later, Ehrlich found that certain toxins, injected into animals, could generate “antitoxins,” which bound and inactivated poisons with extraordinary specificity these antitoxins would later be identified as antibodies. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

The antitoxins taken from his blood serum are the base for the vaccine. ❋ Unknown (2008)

To nurse Los Angeles through these fevers, Mayor Tom Bradley has developed a number of antitoxins. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Botulinum toxin: a bacteria that inhibits breathing and causes suffocation; antitoxins may counteract some strains ❋ Unknown (2008)

After his own bout with tuberculosis — probably contracted in the laboratory — and his subsequent cure with Robert Koch's tuberculin therapy, Ehrlich focused his attention on bacterial toxins and antitoxins. ❋ Unknown (2007)

May 23, 2006, 7: 00 am canada allegra says: canada allegra sticking interruptive Kitakyushu antitoxins security ❋ Unknown (2004)

Owl did her best to draw it out, siphoning and then cleaning the wounds, injecting the big dog with antitoxins to slow or stop the sickening, but even so his condition steadily worsened. ❋ Brooks, Terry (2006)

Sometimes he fed her organic supplements of his own creation, both of food and antitoxins; that one would really drive Erisha wild if she knew about it. ❋ Brooks, Terry (2006)

As a supporter of the humoral theory of immune response, Behring believed in the long-term protective action of these antitoxins found in serum. ❋ Unknown (2001)

With this active immunization he hoped to help the body also produce antitoxins. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Also, after the distribution of the tetanus antitoxins in the military hospitals, many futile attempts at therapy were noted. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The particularly poisonous substances from bacteria – or toxins - could be rendered harmless by the serum of animals immunized with attenuated forms of the infectious agent through antidotes or antitoxins. ❋ Unknown (2001)

During the first few years, there was no successful breakthrough for this form of therapy, as the antitoxins were not sufficiently concentrated. ❋ Unknown (2001)

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