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agar-gel reaction (medicine) and Wiesel, Torsten (Nils) (sh)


agar-gel reaction (medicine)


agar-gel reaction
<immunology> The reaction between an antibody and an antigen during an immunology lab procedure where the two are allowed to diffuse toward each Other through an agar-gel medium.

Lines of precipitation form in the places on the gel where the two react with each Other and shows where the reaction has occurred.


Wiesel, Torsten (Nils) (sh)




born June 3, 1924, Uppsala, Swed.

Swedish neurobiologist.

After earning his medical degree in Sweden, he moved to the U.S., where he joined David Hubel in investigating brain function. By analyzing the flow of nerve impulses from the eye in laboratory animals, they detected many structural and functional details of the visual cortex, in the occipital lobes of the cerebral cortex. Their studies of the effects of visual impairments in young animals lent strong support to the view that prompt surgery is crucial to correct certain eye defects in newborn children. The two shared a 1981 Nobel Prize with Roger Sperry.