cross-reaction love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The reaction between an antigen and an antibody that was generated against a different but similar antigen.

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Examples

  • Often patients were sick with several things—chronic illnesses, diseases of old age, and infections incurred in the hospital—and the more drugs they were taking, the more likely it became that they would suffer a cross-reaction and need to be switched to something else.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Often patients were sick with several things—chronic illnesses, diseases of old age, and infections incurred in the hospital—and the more drugs they were taking, the more likely it became that they would suffer a cross-reaction and need to be switched to something else.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Often patients were sick with several things—chronic illnesses, diseases of old age, and infections incurred in the hospital—and the more drugs they were taking, the more likely it became that they would suffer a cross-reaction and need to be switched to something else.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • The reason this is taking so long, 10 days or so, is they are going to get real specific in terms of the specific level of these substances, and maybe even be able to delineate from where they came, if there was sort of cross-reaction of various substances, for example.

    CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2008 2008

  • For example, in the case of the hybrid mating factor/concentrated salt scaffold protein they added further mutations to knock out the original pathway, to ensure there was no cross-reaction where, say, one signal would activate both the mating response and the high salt response.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • For example, in the case of the hybrid mating factor/concentrated salt scaffold protein they added further mutations to knock out the original pathway, to ensure there was no cross-reaction where, say, one signal would activate both the mating response and the high salt response.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • For example, in the case of the hybrid mating factor/concentrated salt scaffold protein they added further mutations to knock out the original pathway, to ensure there was no cross-reaction where, say, one signal would activate both the mating response and the high salt response.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • For example, in the case of the hybrid mating factor/concentrated salt scaffold protein they added further mutations to knock out the original pathway, to ensure there was no cross-reaction where, say, one signal would activate both the mating response and the high salt response.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • Instead an interfering cross-reaction would occur between amino acids and sugars to give complex, insoluble polymeric material of very dubious relevance to chemical evolution.

    Experts in creationism trials -- Shallit be? - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Humans don't have octopamine receptors, so that may make nootkatone safe for humans, though Dolan says scientists don't yet know whether there's any cross-reaction between nootkatone and adrenaline receptors.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

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