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Examples of avidity
avidity
A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist.
From the time.com
Here, indeed, was sport royal, and the plain people took to it with avidity.
From the theatlantic.com
Yet his avidity for extreme experience has nothing cold or cynical about it.
From the guardian.co.uk
Low avidity recognition of self-antigen by T cells permits escape from central tolerance.
From the nature.com
The subsidies were consumed with the avidity of a junkie taking his fix.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Unable to fully engage with the world physically, he observed it with voracious avidity.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Also expected is a millionaire art fancier with a notorious avidity for avant-garde junk.
From the time.com
But it also effectively requires us to respond with a tabloid reader's avidity for base gossip.
From the independent.co.uk
The fungus they propose using has an incompletely known avidity for flora besides the coca bush.
From the newscientist.com
- Eagerness: a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
- In proteins, avidity is a term used to describe the combined strength of multiple bond interactions. Avidity is distinct from affinity, which is a term used to describe the strength of a single bond. ...
- Greediness; strong appetite; The measure of the synergism of the strength individual interactions between proteins
- The summation of multiple affinities, for example when a polyvalent antibody binds to a polyvalent antigen.
- The binding strength of an antibody for an antigen. [L. avidus, eager greedy fr. aveo, to crave]
- The frequency of fishing activity, measured as number of days on which fishing trips were made.
- The binding strength between two molecules (e.g. antibody and antigen) taking into account the valency of the interaction. Thus the avidity will always be equal to or greater than the intrinsic affinity (see affinity).
- Overall binding strength between an antibody and its antigen, determined by the number of binding sites between them.
- Avidity is a measure of the association intensity of the reactions of the binder. Avidity is influenced by all of the intrinsic ligand-binder affinities such as the multiple interactions found with polymeric antibodies and multivalent antigens binding at multiple contact points.
