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Immunoglobulin M

"Immunoglobulin M" 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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A class of immunoglobulin bearing mu chains (IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU-CHAINS). IgM can fix COMPLEMENT. The name comes from its high molecular weight and originally being called a macroglobulin.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Immunoglobulin M" by people in this website by year, and whether "Immunoglobulin M" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 95 publications over 28 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 1998 and 2021
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