See Also: antibody specificity(medicine)
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Specificity(medicine)
Analytic specificity(health)
organ specificity(medicine)
analytical specificity(medicine)
relative specificity(medicine)
Substrate specificity(medicine)
sensitivity and specificity(medicine)
species specificity(medicine)

antibody specificity (medicine)


antibody specificity


The property of antibodies which enables them to react with some antigenic determinants and not with others. Specificity is dependent on chemical composition, physical forces, and molecular structure at the binding site.