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Carrier

A person who or animal that harbors a specific infectious agent in the absence of discernible clinical disease and serves as a potential source of infection. See also: label, tracer. 2. Any chemical capable of accepting an atom, radical, or subatomic particle from one compound, then passing it to another; for example, cytochromes are electron carriers; homocysteine is a methyl carrier. See also: label, tracer. 3. A substance that, by having chemical properties closely related to or indistinguishable from those of a radioactive tracer, is thus able to carry the tracer through a precipitation or similar chemical procedure; the best carriers are the nonradioactive isotopes of the tracer in question. See also: label, tracer. 4. A large immunogen (usually a protein) that, when coupled to a hapten, facilitates an immune response to the hapten. 5. A component of a membrane that causes the transfer of a substance from one side of the membrane to the other. 6. The mobile phase in chromatography. 7. A component of a biologic fluid that binds a ligand and transports that ligand to a ne wlocation.

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PublicationTitle	Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary
PublicationType	Dictionary
PublicationYear	Accessed on 23.09.2019
Website	https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/carrier

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