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Antibody Specificity

"Antibody Specificity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The property of antibodies which enables them to react with some ANTIGENIC DETERMINANTS and not with others. Specificity is dependent on chemical composition, physical forces, and molecular structure at the binding site.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Antibody Specificity" by people in this website by year, and whether "Antibody Specificity" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 73 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 1997
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