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What is an antigen?

NORMSKI p.norman at umds.ac.uk
Thu May 16 07:15:48 EST 1996


ssharif at uoguelph.ca (Shayan Sharif) wrote:
>An antigen, by definition, is a substance which binds to an antibody 
>molecule.
  So Fc receptors and complement in their normal environment are antigens are they? hmmm

An antigen is not a substance that binds to an antibody, but a substance which leads to the 
production of antibody (greek:- genan- to produce)

do I win pedant of the week award  ?  







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