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Idiotype
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Idiotype The combined antigenic determinants (idiotopes) found on antibodies of an individual that are directed at a particular antigen; such antigenic determinants are found only in the variable region.
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Antibodies
Proteins produced by white blood cells. They confer immunity.
Antigen
A substance which, when present in animal tissue, stimulates the production of antibodies
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Idiographic
Specific to the self and unique to one's own biography.
Idiopathic
Of unexplained origin, as in the development of a symptom or syndrome that is apparently spontaneously generated.
Idiosyncratic
Pertaining to one's individual and sujectively personal ideation, cognitions, affect, tastes, attitudes, habits and behaviors. As in fingerprints, irises, and DNA coding (except in identical twins) the term pertains to one's individuality in any specific measurable factor. Compare to phyletic.
Idiot savant
A person with gross mental retardation who nonetheless is capable of performing certain remarkable feats in sharply circumscribed intellectual areas, such as calendar calculation or puzzle solving.
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Indigestion
Impaired digestion, especially after eating.
Infertility
The diminished or absent ability to conceive or produce an offspring while sterility is the complete inability to conceive or produce an offspring.
Influenza
An acute viral infection involving the respiratory tract. It is marked by inflammation of the nasal mucosa, the pharynx, and conjunctiva, and by headache and severe, often generalized, myalgia.
Insomnia
Disorders characterized by impairment of the ability to initiate or maintain sleep. This may occur as a primary disorder or in association with another medical or psychiatric condition.
Ia
"Immune response-associated" proteins, found on B cells and antigen-presenting cells of mice; an old term now replaced with MHC (major histocompatibility complex) class II molecules.
Idiotype
Immediate-type hypersensitivity
Hypersensitivity tissue reaction occurring within minutes after the interaction of antigen and antibody.
Immune adherence
The adherence of particulate antigen coated with C3b to tissue having cells with C3b receptors.
Immune complex
Antigen bound to antibody.
Immune modulators
Substances that control the expression of the immune response.
Immune response (Ir) gene
A gene controlling an immune response to a particular antigen; most genes of this type are in the MHC (major histocompatibility complex), and the term is rarely used to describe other types of Ir genes outside the MHC.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Antibodies
Proteins produced by white blood cells. They confer immunity.
Antigen
A substance which, when present in animal tissue, stimulates the production of antibodies
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Idiographic
Specific to the self and unique to one's own biography.
Idiopathic
Of unexplained origin, as in the development of a symptom or syndrome that is apparently spontaneously generated.
Idiosyncratic
Pertaining to one's individual and sujectively personal ideation, cognitions, affect, tastes, attitudes, habits and behaviors. As in fingerprints, irises, and DNA coding (except in identical twins) the term pertains to one's individuality in any specific measurable factor. Compare to phyletic.
Idiot savant
A person with gross mental retardation who nonetheless is capable of performing certain remarkable feats in sharply circumscribed intellectual areas, such as calendar calculation or puzzle solving.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Indigestion
Impaired digestion, especially after eating.
Infertility
The diminished or absent ability to conceive or produce an offspring while sterility is the complete inability to conceive or produce an offspring.
Influenza
An acute viral infection involving the respiratory tract. It is marked by inflammation of the nasal mucosa, the pharynx, and conjunctiva, and by headache and severe, often generalized, myalgia.
Insomnia
Disorders characterized by impairment of the ability to initiate or maintain sleep. This may occur as a primary disorder or in association with another medical or psychiatric condition.
Ia
"Immune response-associated" proteins, found on B cells and antigen-presenting cells of mice; an old term now replaced with MHC (major histocompatibility complex) class II molecules.
Idiotype
Immediate-type hypersensitivity
Hypersensitivity tissue reaction occurring within minutes after the interaction of antigen and antibody.
Immune adherence
The adherence of particulate antigen coated with C3b to tissue having cells with C3b receptors.
Immune complex
Antigen bound to antibody.
Immune modulators
Substances that control the expression of the immune response.
Immune response (Ir) gene
A gene controlling an immune response to a particular antigen; most genes of this type are in the MHC (major histocompatibility complex), and the term is rarely used to describe other types of Ir genes outside the MHC.
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