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Article: Immune Complex Test
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- World of Microbiology and Immunology
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Immune complex test
The immune complex test is a test designed to evaluate the status or proper functioning of the
immune system
. The criterion used to evaluate the operation of the immune system is via the presence of so-called immune complexes.
An immune complex is an association formed between large numbers of antigens and the corresponding antibodies. The latter are produced in a specific response to the presence of the
antigen
, which has been perceived as being foreign by the body's immune system. The individual antigen-antibody complexes can associate together to form the interlocking network that represents an immune complex.
Normally, immune complexes are removed from the ...