bivalent

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bivalent

[bī′vā·lənt]

(chemistry)

Possessing a valence of two.

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A), The solid-phase bridging ELISA is based on bivalency of IgG, which can bridge plate-bound unlabeled and soluble enzymatically labeled drug molecules.

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Bivalency increases the functional affinity, called avidity, of the antibody for its target antigen and allows for clumping or agglutination of antibody/antigen complexes.