| 释义 |
bivalent antibody
bivalent antibody[bī′vāl·ənt ′ant·i‚bäd·ē] (immunology) An antibody possessing two antibody combining sites. bivalent antibody
bi·va·lent an·ti·bod·yantibody that causes a visible reaction with specific antigen as in agglutination, precipitation, and so on; so-called because according to the "lattice theory" aggregation occurs when the antibody molecule has two or more binding sites that can crosslink one antigen particle to another; probably a characteristic of the class of immunoglobulin. |