Your dog or cat is probably capable of making 1 trillion
different antibodies during its lifetime - we know we humans can.
Not exact matches
In such patients, a phenomenon called «
antibody - dependent enhancement» (ADE) takes place,
during which
antibodies that were generated
during the first infection bind but do not destroy the slightly
different newly infecting virus, but instead facilitate its infection of immune cells.
The idea is that the abundance of stem - focused
antibodies — amplified from the two shots of vaccine — will come to the rescue
during a natural infection from a virus that possesses a third, totally
different head.
While infection with one type of dengue will provide lifelong protection against that type, the pre-existing
antibodies increase the risk for severe disease
during a second infection with a
different type.
During the 1980s, Marder led studies using
antibodies and the technique of immunocytochemistry to reveal the presence of many
different neuromodulators in nerve fibres around the STG of crabs, including serotonin, proctolin and GABA.