ANTISERUM (antisera)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: antisera   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does antiserum mean? 

• ANTISERUM (noun)
  The noun ANTISERUM has 1 sense:

1. blood serum containing antibodies against specific antigens; provides immunity to a disease

  Familiarity information: ANTISERUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTISERUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Blood serum containing antibodies against specific antigens; provides immunity to a disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("antiserum" is a kind of...):

blood serum; serum (an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates)

 Context examples 

J5 antiserum reacts with lipid A, the key endotoxic component of the lipopolysaccharides (LPS), found mostly in gram-negative bacteria.

(J5 Antiserum, NCI Thesaurus)

Heterologous antisera to mouse lymphocytes produced in horses and used to treat or prevent transplant rejection.

(Horse Anti-mouse Anti-lymphocyte Serum, NCI Thesaurus)

The specific reaction pattern of erythrocytes of an individual to the antisera of one blood group; e.g., the ABO blood group consists of four major blood types: O, A, B, and AB.

(Blood Type, NCI Thesaurus)

Conventional treatments, such as antisera, may not completely neutralize the toxins.

(3-D gel-nanoparticle device detoxifies blood, NIH)

By binding to endotoxins, J5 antiserum prevents the initiation of a cascade of events in host cells, including the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines that eventually leads to the sepsis syndrome.

(J5 Antiserum, NCI Thesaurus)

The blood type is the genetic phenotype of the individual for one blood group system and may be determined using different antisera available for testing.

(Blood Type, NCI Thesaurus)

These polyclonal antisera produced by immunization of horses with mice splenocytes exhibit some general anti-leucocyte activity as well as some antiplatelet activity and may produce varying degrees of leucopenia or thrombocytopenia; the primary effect of anti-lymphocyte antisera is to reduce the T-lymphocyte count.

(Horse Anti-mouse Anti-lymphocyte Serum, NCI Thesaurus)

An antiserum raised against endotoxins of Escherichia coli J5 strain with potential antibacterial activity.

(J5 Antiserum, NCI Thesaurus)