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1 Concept of Antigen
• Antigens are substances that induce a specific
immune response and subsequently react with
the products of a specific immune response.
• Antibody generation
9-4 Autoantigen
sperm antigen
9-5 Idiotypic antigen
An antibody molecule is some sort of foreign mol
ecule when generated in animal body. Such that i
mmune system recognizes it as Antigen, which i
s known as Idiotypic antigen.
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