a serum containing naturally or artificially produced antibodies to a given antigen, obtained from human or animal sources
Word origin
[1900–05]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: burnout, decompression, elder statesman, geopolitics, hydroplane
Examples of 'immune serum' in a sentence
immune serum
The unique library peptides were successfully used to isolate antigen-specific antibodies from complete immune serum.
Kurt Whittemore, Stephen Albert Johnston, Kathryn Sykes, Luhui Shen 2016, 'A General Method to Discover Epitopes from Sera', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0157462. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Also, immune serum specific to this protein inhibits the contact dependent hemolysis.
Ahmed Neesar, Sneh Amita, Srivastava Saumya S, Rahman Aejazur, Krishnasastry MustiV 2010, 'Molecular characterization of tlyA gene product, Rv1694 of Mycobacteriumtuberculosis: A non-conventional hemolysin and a ribosomal RNA methyl transferase',BMC Biochemistryhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2091/11/35. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Components of the schistosome surface tegument, previously identified with immune serum, were also released.
Elizabeth Hansell, Simon Braschi, Katalin F Medzihradszky, Mohammed Sajid, MoumitaDebnath, Jessica Ingram, K C Lim, James H McKerrow 2008, 'Proteomic analysis of skin invasion by blood fluke larvae.', PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseaseshttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2467291?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)