单词 | opsonin |
释义 | opsoninn. Medicine and Bacteriology. A substance (often an antibody) in blood serum which combines with bacteria or other foreign cells and renders them more susceptible to phagocytosis. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > substance > process stimulators or inhibitors > antibody > [noun] > types of Russell body1892 precipitin1900 nephrotoxin1902 hepatotoxin1903 opsonin1903 autoantibody1905 concanavalin1917 isoantibody1919 reagin1925 immune globulin1934 macroglobulin1952 immunoglobulin1953 properdin1954 LATS1961 alloantibody1964 xenoantibody1974 monoclonal1980 abzyme1986 1903 A. E. Wright & S. R. Douglas in Proc. Royal Soc. 72 366 We may speak of this as an ‘opsonic’ effect (opsono—I cater for; I prepare victuals for), and we may employ the term ‘opsonins’ to designate the elements in the body fluids which produce this effect. 1911 G. B. Shaw Doctor's Dilemma i. 10 Opsonin is what you butter the disease germs with to make your white corpuscles eat them. 1950 C. J. Witton Microbiology xxii. 297 Opsonic test. If the patient's white blood cells show unusual ability to engulf the bacteria, it indicates the presence of specific opsonins. 1999 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 10799/1 Gp-340 may be an opsonin receptor for SP-A and SP-D located in tissue macrophages throughout the body. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1903 |
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