Greenspan Neil S
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Pathog Immun. 2017;2(1):60-65. doi: 10.20411/pai.v2i1.198. Epub 2017 Mar 14.
In this brief commentary, I highlight the remarkable properties of antibodies (also known as immunoglobulins) revealed by more than 100 years of biomedical research. Since antibodies can be elicited through one or another means against almost any molecule or macromolecule, the universe of antibodies represents a sort of molecular mirror for the totality of molecules that make life possible. Consequently, as recounted below, antibodies play a role in almost every aspect of medicine and biomedical research.
在这篇简短的评论中,我着重介绍了100多年来生物医学研究揭示的抗体(也称为免疫球蛋白)的非凡特性。由于几乎可以通过任何一种方式针对几乎任何分子或大分子诱导产生抗体,抗体的世界就像是使生命成为可能的所有分子的一种分子镜像。因此,如下所述,抗体在医学和生物医学研究的几乎每个方面都发挥着作用。