The Promise of the Anti-Idiotype Concept

The Promise of the Anti-Idiotype Concept

A basic tenet of antibody-based immunity is their specificity to antigenic determinates from foreign pathogen products to abnormal cellular components such as in cancer. However, an antibody has the potential to bind to more than one determinate, be it an antigen or another antibody. These observa...

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Main Authors: Thomas eKieber-Emmons, Bejatohlah eMonzavi-Karbassi, Anastas ePashov, Somdutta eSaha, Ramachandran eMurali, Heinz eKohler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
Subjects:
Cancer
tumor
antibody
Idiotype Network Theory
Mimotopes
Vaccine Design
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fonc.2012.00196/full

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