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Serotherapy
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Treatment of
infectious disease by injection of immune serum or antitoxin
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Immunotherapy:
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treatment of disease by inducing, enhancing,
or suppressing an immune response.
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Pooled gamma
globulin (replacement therapy)
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They
take the antibodies from many individuals who have high titers to different
diseases and they pool them together to form a pooled globulin that has many
more antibodies
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Opsonin
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Something that enhances phagocytosis
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Lysin
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Causes lysis of bacterial cells
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Immobilizing antibodies
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Have specificity to flagellar proteins so that the bacteria can't move
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Plasma
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Devoid of cellshas clotting factors
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Serum
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Devoid of living cellsdevoid of clotting factors
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Densitometer
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Measures the amount of stain which indicates the amount of proteins.
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Hypogammaglobulinemic
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Not enough antibodies.agammaglobulinemic
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Hypergammaglobulinemic
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Has just been exposed to infection or has hypersensitivity
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M-spike
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Typical of patients who have cancer called multiple myelinoma. This is a b cell cancer and is producing a lot of a single type of antibody
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