Other terms
Antibodies, Heterologous,Antibodies, Heterophil,Heterophil Antibodies,Antibodies, Heterotypic,Heterotypic Antibodies,Xenoantibodies,Antibodies, Xenogenic,Xenogenic Antibodies,Heteroantibodies,Heterogenetic Antibodies,Heterologous Antibodies,Heterophile Antibodies,Antibodies, Heterogenetic,Antibodies, Xenogeneic,Xenogeneic Antibodies,Hanganutziu-Deicher Antibodies,H-D Antibodies,Paul-Bunnell Antibodies,P-B Antibodies,Forssman Antibody,Antibody, Forssman
Description
Antibodies, Heterophile: Antibodies elicited in a different species from which the antigen originated. These antibodies are directed against a wide variety of interspecies-specific antigens, the best known of which are Forssman, Hanganutziu-Deicher (H-D), and Paul-Bunnell (P-B). Incidence of antibodies to these antigens--i.e., the phenomenon of heterophile antibody response--is useful in the serodiagnosis, pathogenesis, and prognosis of infection and latent infectious states as well as in cancer classification.
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