amboceptor

[am-buh-sep-ter]

noun

Immunology Now Rare.

1. hemolysin.

amboceptor

/ ˈæmbəʊˌsɛptə /

noun

1. an immune body formed in the blood during infection or immunization that serves to link the complement to the antigen

Word History and Origins

Origin of amboceptor¹

1900–05; < Latin ambō both (akin to ambi- ) + (re)ceptor

Word History and Origins

Origin of amboceptor¹

C20: from Latin ambō both (see _ambi- ) + ( _re ) _ceptor

Example Sentences

Immune body or amboceptor is the name given to a substance present in the serum of an infected animal that has successfully resisted inoculation with some particular micro-organism, and which possesses the power of linking the complement normally present in the serum to bacteria of the species used as antigen in such a manner that the micro-organisms are rendered innocuous, and ultimately destroyed.

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In the case of the destruction of bacteria in the blood by the action of amboceptor and complement, the amboceptor must be able to combine with both the bacterial cell and the complement which brings about its destruction, and just as antitoxine is formed so new amboceptors may be formed.

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The amount of amboceptor may increase in the course of infection and its formation stimulated, the amount of complement remains unchanged.

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The action of the amboceptor is specific, that is, directed against a single species of bacterium only; the destructive power of the blood may be very great against a single bacterium species and have no effect on others.

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The thermostabile substance, or amboceptor, as it is generally called, has in itself no destructive action on the bacteria; but in some way so alters them that they can be acted on by the thermolabile substance called complement whose action is destructive.

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