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Definition of Opsonins
1. opsonin [n] - See also: opsonin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opsonins
Literary usage of Opsonins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"The opsonins combine with the bacteria and in that way prepare them for being
taken up ... In the absence of opsonins, phagocytosis does not take place, ..."
2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1907)
"... and Dean" are inclined to consider the opsonins as identical with the ...
that in common with complement, so-called, the opsonins are absorbed or fixed ..."
3. Bacteriology for Nurses by Mary Alice Smeeton (1920)
"opsonins are much more active in some infections than in others; ... The relation
of normal and immune opsonins to the other antibodies is as yet unsettled; ..."
4. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"As will readily be understood, the bacterial opsonins have been studied most
extensively, but opsonins may be present in normal and immune serums for other ..."
5. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopic and Chemical Methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"THE opsonins. THE term opsonin has been introduced by Wright and Douglas to designate
... While normal opsonins are more or less thermolabile, being usually ..."
6. Principles of Immunology by Howard Thomas Karsner, Enrique Eduardo Ecker (1921)
"INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITION. EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION. NORMAL opsonins ...
opsonins FOR CELLS OTHER THAN BACTERIA. SPECIFICITY AND OTHER CHARACTERS. ..."
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