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Antibody specificity

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-000431

The property of antibodies which enables them to react with some antigenic determinants and not with others. Specificity is dependent on chemical composition, physical forces, and molecular structure at the binding site.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-000431
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesMedical Subject Headings 2014; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (CC BY 4.0)
See alsoImmunity; Antibodies; Serology
TranslationsSpanish: especificidad de los anticuerpos
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-000431",
  "term": "Antibody specificity",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "The property of antibodies which enables them to react with some antigenic determinants and not with others. Specificity is dependent on chemical composition, physical forces, and molecular structure at the binding site.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "immunity",
    "antibodies",
    "serology"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Medical Subject Headings 2014",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "especificidad de los anticuerpos"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/antibody-specificity/"
}

Record 427 of 6,798 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.