Immunologic Factor
anti-idiotype antibody
Subclass of:
Antibodies
Definitions related to antibodies, anti-idiotypic:
  • (antiidiotype antibody) Antibodies which react with the individual structural determinants (idiotypes) on a particular immunoglobulin (antibody) molecule.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (anti-idiotype antibody) An antibody directed against the individual antigenic determinants (idiotopes) on the variable region of an immunoglobulin molecule. In principle an anti-idiotype antibody should inhibit a specific immune response and they are important to the regulation of the immune system.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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