Glossary of HIV/AIDS Terms
This glossary contains 1,600 terms and is maintained by the editors of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS.
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monoclonal antibodies (acronym MABs): antibodies derived (often by genetic engineering) from a single clone of cells; MABs are specifically directed against a particular epitope (a unique antigen marker that can trigger an antibody response) and are used as tools to detect and identify specific proteins.