antigens

Foreign molecules that trigger an immune response are called antigens.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Foreign molecules that trigger an immune response are called antigens.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Foreign molecules that trigger an immune response are called antigens.

Parasite Rex 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.

OUR BODIES, OURSELVES 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.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996 - Presentation Speech 1997

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

Baruj Benacerraf - Autobiography 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.

Physiology or Medicine 1980 - Press Release 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.

Peter Medawar - Nobel Lecture 1964

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

Peter Medawar - Nobel Lecture 1964

Tolerance of more remotely foreign cellular antigens is more difficult but certainly not impossible to achieve.

Peter Medawar - Nobel Lecture 1964