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cytotropic antibody (medicine) and Putnam, Rufus (sh)


cytotropic antibody (medicine)


cytotropic antibody
Antibody that has an affinity for certain kinds of cells, in addition to and unrelated to its specific affinity for the antigen that induced it, because of the properties of the Fc portion of the heavy chain.

See: heterocytotropic antibody, homocytotropic antibody, cytotropic antibody test.

Synonym: anaphylactic antibody, cytophilic antibody.


Putnam, Rufus (sh)




born April 9, 1738, Sutton, Mass.
died May 4, 1824, Marietta, Ohio, U.S.

American Revolutionary army officer.

A cousin of Israel Putnam, he fought in the French and Indian War. Entering the Continental Army in 1775, he organized fortifications in Boston and New York (1776-77) and at West Point (1778), and he fought at the Battle of Saratoga. In 1783 he was promoted to brigadier General. After the war he helped found the Ohio Company of Associates to obtain a land grant for settlement by war veterans; he led the group that founded Marietta, Ohio (1788). From 1796 to 1803 he was U.S. surveyor General.