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Antigen
In
immunology
,
TCR
or
BCR
or its secreted form
antibody
. In simpler terms, an
antigen
is any substance that causes an immune system to produce antibodies against it. Each antibody is specifically selected after binding to a certain antigen because of
random somatic diversification
in the antibody
complementarity determining regions
.
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