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An antibody is a substance produced by lymphocytes in response to an antigen so that it may destroy or control it.
Antibodies can neutralise antigens in a number of ways:
- initiating lysis, or disentigration, of the antigen
- neutralising bacterial toxins
- coating the antigen
- forming a complex to stimulate phagocytosis
- promoting agglutination
- preventing the antigen from adhering to host cells