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kinoids

kinoids is the plural of kinoid.

Meaning of kinoid

Noun

kinoid (plural kinoids)

  1. An immunogenic preparation containing a biologically inactivated cytokine, used experimentally as a form of vaccination to induce the production of antibodies against overproduced cytokines in several immune-related conditions (e.g. systemic lupus erythematosus, AIDS and Crohn's disease).
    • For this purpose, IFN alpha was chemically converted into a biologically inactive, but still immunogenic product, which we termed “kinoid”, reminiscent of that of bacterial toxins which have been transformed into toxoids for vaccination. […] Active “kinoid” immunization should permit to counteract...[1995 May 1, Bernard Bizzini, A. Achour, “"Kinoids": the basis for anticytokine immunization and their use in HIV infection”, in Cellular and Molecular Biology (Noisy-le-Grand, France), volume 41...

Questions about kinoids

What is kinoids the plural of?
Kinoids is the plural of kinoid.

Words near kinoids in the dictionary

  1. kinogeometric
  2. Kinoguitan
  3. kinohapt
  4. kinohapts
  5. kinoid
  6. kinoids
  7. kinoin
  8. kinoins
  9. Kinois
  10. kinoite
  11. kinok

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