Bobak Seddighzadeh Week 7

Definitions

1. Syncytium: A tissue characterized by cytoplasmic continuity, or a large mass of cytoplasm not separated into individual cells and containing many nuclei.
2. Fab: a fragment of immunoglobulin prepared by papain treatment. Fab fragments consist of one light chain linked through a disulphide bond to a portion of the heavy chain and contain one antigen binding Site.
3. Antigen: Any substance that’s recognized as foreign by the immune system and triggers an immune response, stimulating the production of an antibody that specifically reacts with it.
4. Tropic: A turning towards or having an affinity for.
5. Paucity: smallness of number or scarcity.
6. Ternary complex: describes the tripartite combination of such as for an enzyme-cofactor-substrate for a multi-substrate enzyme.
7. Epitope: That part of an antigenic molecule to which the t-cell receptor responds, a site on a large molecule against which an antibody will be produced and to which it will bind.
8. Isomorphous: Similarity in form, as in organisms of different ancestry.
9. Chemokine receptor: cytokine receptors found on the surface of certain cells, which interact with a type of cytokine called a chemokine.
10. Domain: A part of a molecule or structure with common physio-chemical features or properties.

Works Cited:

• Biology-online.org dictionary