Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation major histocompatibility complex
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- initialism immunology Major histocompatibility complex.
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Examples
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The public defender's social worker and a neutral mental health professional hired by the court, called the MHC liaison, talk to each potential MHC client to assess whether they suffer from a major mental illness, have or had mental health services within the community, and would like to participate in MHC.
Progressive justice in the twenty first century: Part Three of a special NPI series 2008
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The public defender's social worker and a neutral mental health professional hired by the court, called the MHC liaison, talk to each potential MHC client to assess whether they suffer from a major mental illness, have or had mental health services within the community, and would like to participate in MHC.
Are you registered to vote? Have you been disenfranchised? 2008
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Roughly speaking, an individual's set of defensive tools is known as his MHC type.
1491 2002
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The answer is that each cell in the body puts a protein called MHC I on its surface.
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Roughly speaking, an individual's set of defensive tools is known as his MHC type.
1491 2002
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They screen the donor's and recipient's so-called MHC proteins: If these are not well matched, it would trigger the immune system to attack foreign invaders -in this case, the donor's face.
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They screen the donor's and recipient's so-called MHC proteins: If these are not well matched, it would trigger the immune system to attack foreign invaders -in this case, the donor's face.
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In the current study, Robert and colleagues found a striking similarity between frogs and humans among genes related to proteins known as MHC (major histocompatibility complex) proteins, which play a key role helping an organism detect foreign materials or organisms, as well as in detecting and controlling cancerous cells.
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Killer T cells identify infected cells through the presence of molecules on the outside of cells called MHC-I.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Killer T cells identify infected cells through the presence of molecules on the outside of cells called MHC-I.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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