About The Medical Condition Antigenic Mimicry
Find the definition of the medical term Antigenic Mimicry. Antigenic Mimicry defined and explained for easy understanding at the Medical Conditions from ClusterMed.info.
Antigenic Mimicry
| Antigenic Mimicry Medical Condition |
|---|
What's The Definition Of The Medical Condition Antigenic Mimicry?
The process in which structural properties of an introduced molecule imitate or simulate molecules of the host. Direct mimicry of a molecule enables a viral protein to bind directly to a normal substrate as a substitute for the homologous normal ligand. Immunologic molecular mimicry generally refers to what can be described as antigenic mimicry and is defined by the properties of antibodies raised against various facets of epitopes on the viral protein. (From Immunology Letters 1991 May;28(2):91-9)
|
More Medical Conditions
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Medical Conditions Definitions Of The Day
- Vitamin D-Resistant Rickets ‐ Familial disorder characterized by hypophosphatemia associated…
- Skin Diseases, Parasitic ‐ Skin diseases caused by arthropods, helminths, or…
- Outtakes (PT) ‐ Untitled raw motion picture and video footage which has not been…
- Oxidative Phosphorylations ‐ Electron transfer through the cytochrome system liberating free…
- Iodotyrosine ‐ A product from the iodination of tyrosine. In the biosynthesis…
- Beta-1 Subunit, Integrin ‐ Integrin beta-1 chains which are expresssed as heterodimers noncovalently…
- Cell Lineages ‐ The developmental history of cells as traced from the first division…
- Leukemias, Acute Myelocytic ‐ Progressive, malignant disease of the myeloid tissue in which…
- Antiaggregants, Platelet ‐ Drugs or agents which antagonize or impair any mechanism leading…
- Rev-Responsive Elements, HIV ‐ DNA sequences that form the coding region for the viral envelope…