Crossword-Solution: ANTIGEN
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ANTIGEN | anagram | ANTEING, GENTIAN, NEATING, NETGAIN |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANTIGEN (5)
The process by which passive immunity is acquired depends upon the fact that as a result of the reaction between the specific virus of a particular disease (the _antigen_) and the tissues of the animal attacked, certain substances--_antibodies_--are produced, which when transferred to the body of a susceptible animal protect it against that disease.
Still, after having used vaccines on human beings and animals for twenty-one years, and observing that plant life reacts to an antigen in a similar manner, I am at least entitled to the same conclusions.
Injections must be made and the antigen must go into the plants, not in single doses, if you please, but by the thousands.
The molecules which lead to the production of anti-substances are usually known as antigens, and each antigen has a specific combining affinity for its corresponding anti-substance, fitting it as a lock does a key.
But provided death does not immediately follow the injection of the antigen, specific antibody is always formed in greater or lesser amount; and in experimental work a sufficient amount of any required antibody can often be obtained without carrying the process of immunisation to its logical termination.
Quotes with ANTIGEN (3)
Perhaps it is in this respect that language differs most sharply from other biologic systems for communication. Ambiguity seems to be an essential, indispensable element for the transfer of information from one place to another by words, where matters of real importance are concerned. It is often necessary, for meaning to come through, that there be an almost vague sense of strangeness and askewness. Speechless animals and cells cannot do this. The specifically locked-on anti…
The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science. If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.
Somatic hypermutation gives rise to B cells bearing mutant immunoglobulin molecules on their surface. Some of these mutant immunoglobulins have substitutions in the antigen-binding site that increase its affinity for the antigen. B cells bearing these mutant high-affinity immunoglobulin receptors compete most effectively for binding to antigen and are preferentially selected to mature into antibody-secreting plasma cells. The mutant antibodies that emerge from the selection d…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 28 times in crossword archives (1968–2023).