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hyperimmune
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hyperimmune /hy·per·im·mune/ (hi″per-ĭ-mūn´) possessing very large quantities of specific antibodies in the serum.
hyperimmune
[-imyo̅o̅n′]
Etymology: Gk, hyper + L, immunis, freedom
having a greater-than-normal immunity because of an unusual abundance of antibodies.

hyperimmune [hi″per-im-mūn´]
possessing very large quantities of specific antibodies in the serum.

hyperimmune
possessing very large quantities of specific antibodies in the serum.

hyperimmune serum
serum especially prepared for temporary passive protection or treatment of animals. Commercial preparation is by repeated injections of the selected antigens.

hyperimmune
adjective Referring to an immune state characterized by an abundance of one or more immunoglobulins, due to repeated exposure to one or a limited palette of microorganisms


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Maternally derived antibodies were efficiently transmitted in vitellus, further confirming that offspring of females hyperimmunized with the inactivated vaccine received high titers of maternal antibodies.
All samples were tested for HuCV by a novel ELISA specific for noroviruses based on pools of sera obtained from rabbits and guinea pigs hyperimmunized with a total of 9 different norovirus capsids (12) and by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) targeting conserved sequences in the polymerase region of HuCVs (9).
ProtiOne is based on two technologies -- spray-dried plasma, the standard that has been widely used for more than 10 years, and hyperimmunized eggs, a new technology that compliments the known effectiveness of plasma.
 
 
 
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