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Q: What is a protein thatacts against a specific antigen?
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What is the protein made in a response to a specific antigen called?

An antigen is a protein made in response to a specific antigen.


What is the medical term meaning a specific protein evoked by an antigen?

An antibody is a specific protein evoked by an antigen.


Are anitgens proteins?

Yes. An antigen is a substance that stimulates an animal in order to produce an antibody reaction to counteract the substance by a specific binding antibody-antigen. Most of the times this antigen is a molecule of protein.


The y- shaped protein that is produced by plasma cells upon exposure to a specific antigen and can bind to that antigen is called a?

antibody


What function of this protein is to bind to a specific antigen preventing it from attacking host cells?

Antibody.


What is formed in the blood to fight invading antigens?

Antibody is a protein made in response to a specific antigen. The antibody attaches to the antigen and makes it useless.


A screening test to detect prostate cancer that measures protein levels is called?

The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is a blood screen for prostate cancer.


What is a substance usually a protein that causes the formation of an antibody and reacts specifically with that antibody?

An antigen is any substance that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against it. An antigen may be a foreign substance from the environment. If you get a vaccine for rubella, the antibody formed will not act against mumps (another virus).


What is a specific term for a bacterial or other foreign protein that initiates antibody production by the body?

antigen


What are anti bodies and antigen?

The antigen is the foreign "invader" in the body. The antibody is a tiny "Y" shaped protein that is chemically attracted to a specific antigen; binding to it and thereby marking it for destruction by a white blood cell.


What is the definition of antibody?

An antibody is a y shaped molecule which is specific to a particular antigen, it is a globular protein which is made by white blood cells called lymphocytes. These defend the body against antigens (alien cells).


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Noun A blood protein produced in response to and counteracting a specific antigen