See Also: infant mortality rate(medicine)
infant mortality rate(dictionary)
rate, infant mortality(medicine)
mortality rate, infant(medicine)
infant mortality(medicine)
Infant mortality(health)
Mortality Rate(health)
Mortality Rate(money)
Mortality rate(medicine)
perinatal mortality rate(medicine)

immunofixation (medicine) and mortality rate, infant (medicine)


immunofixation (medicine)


immunofixation
<technique> A powerful enhancement of immunoelectrophoresis in which a series of post-electrophoretic gel slabs are layered with cellulose-acetate gels saturated with specific antibodies.

The resulting antigen-antibody complexes fixed on the second gel may then be stained, allowing sensitive and specific qualitative visual identification of paraproteins by electrophoretic position.

It can be used to identify specific proteins in the blood or urine. It has greatest application in the identification (and monitoring) of monoclonal proteins that are produced in conditions like Waldenstom's macroglobulinaemia and multiple myeloma.


mortality rate, infant (medicine)


mortality rate, infant


The number of children dying under a year of age divided by the number of live births that year. The infant mortality rate in the United States, which was 12.5 per 1,000 live births in 1980, fell to 9.2 per 1,000 live births in 1990.