The antigen-antibody reaction is widely used in laboratory diagnostics, including immunohaematology. It is a reversible chemical reaction: antigen+antibody⇄antigen-antibody complex (1) The forces joining the antigen-antibody complex are not strong covalent bonds but weaker bonds, appropriately named “weak interactions”1.
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Reverberi et al. (2007) studied this question.
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