Epitope/Related Articles

Parent topics

• Immune system [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• Antigen, tumor-associated, carbohydrate [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Epitope, B-lymphocyte [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Epitope, T-lymphocyte [r]: Sites on antigens that are recognized by T-lymphocytes. Antigenic determinants recognized and bound by the T-cell receptor. Epitopes recognized by the T-cell receptor are often located in the inner, unexposed side of the antigen, and become accessible to the T-cell receptors after proteolytic processing of the antigen. ^[e]
• Hapten [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Immunodominant epitope [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Immunoglobulin idiotype [r]: Add brief definition or description

Related topics

• Opsonins [r]: A family of proteins, generated by various immune mechanisms, which "tag" cells as targets for defensive digestion by cells that perform phagocytosis ^[e]