Definition of immunodiffusion in English:
immunodiffusion
nounˌɪmjʊnəʊdɪˈfjuːʒ(ə)nɪˌmjuːnəʊdɪˈfjuːʒ(ə)niˌmyo͞o-
mass nounBiochemistry A technique for detecting or measuring antibodies and antigens by their precipitation when diffused together through a gel or other medium.
Example sentencesExamples
- Radial immunodiffusion may be used as a means of demonstrating measurement of immunoglobulin levels.
- Immunologic or antigenic fibrinogen can be quantitated by radial immunodiffusion or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
- The author performed immunoprecipitation with immunodiffusion, using Petri dishes that contained 15 ml of 1.2% agarose in a barbital buffer.
- Twenty-four hours after treatment, leaves were ground with a mortar and the expressed leaf extract was analyzed for proteinase inhibitor concentrations by radial immunodiffusion as described previously.
- Little impetus has existed for the development of modern enzyme immunologic assay methods, and most laboratories still perform commercial radial immunodiffusion methods to quantify the antigenic form of antithrombin.