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. 2007 Jan;60(1):8–17. doi: 10.1136/jcp.2005.032300

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Figure 1 Antibody structure: antibodies consist of two identical heavy and light chains, arranged as a Y‐shaped tetramer. Each chain is arranged into variable and constant regions. The variable regions are the sites of antigen binding, the amino acid sequence of the complementarity‐determining regions at this site confers the antigen‐binding specificity. The heavy chain constant region determines the antibody function.