immunofocussing

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A form of immunofocusing — The engineering of antigens in order to produce antibodies with desired characteristics

Scrabble 25

Meanings

nounimmunofocussing (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of immunofocusing.

    Western blotting and immunofocussing would be an advantage.

    1993 March 2, “Department of Veterinary Pathology: Postdoctoral Fellowship”, in The Guardian, London; Manchester, page 32
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    The small study reported here on the immunofocussing of myeloma proteins served to demonstrate several important factors:[…]

    1978 April 17, Jeffrey Ambler, “Isoelectric focussing of proteins on cellulose acetate gel membranes”, in Clinica Chimica Acta, volume 85, number 2

    Immunofocussing may depend on generally limited antigen presentation – Our data do not support the idea that the generally observed focussing of the Tp response results from limitation in the Tp precursor library.

    1986, S. K. Singhal, T. L. Delovitch, Mediators of Immune Regulation and Immunotherapy: Proceedings of the International Symposium, Mediators of Immune Regulation and Immunotherapy, Held June 13-15, 1985, at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, page 44

    A variation on RIA for the detection of Hepatitis A virus is radio-immunofocussing in which viruses in a plaque are reacted with a radiolabelled antibody and an autoradiogram is developed (Rao and Melnick, 1986).

    1993, Health-related Water Microbiology: Proceedings of a Seminar Held in […] as Part of the […] IAWPRC Biennial Conference, page 245
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