When an animal receives one or more parenteral injection of certain foreign materials - proteins, red blood cells, tissue extracts from another species, bacteria or bacterial products - there generally appears in the serum, within a few days, a substance which possesses the unique property of reacting with the material injected (1). This serum component is termed antibody and the material which stimulated its production is called antigen. The animal which has formed antibodies is said (by convention) to be immunized. The presence of antibodies in the serum of immunized animals may be recognized by the occurrence of certain characteristic reactions such as precipitation, agglutination, and complement fixation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115283 |
| Date | January 1963 |
| Creators | Tenenhouse, Harriet. R. |
| Contributors | Fraser, M. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Chemistry.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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