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Capability of a substance, such as a drug or a vaccine, to provoke a response from a living matter.
Notes:
- There is no polymer (solid or in solution) that is inert in contact with a living system, because of adsorption and/or physical-chemical interactions with life elements (biopolymers, cells, and tissues).
- Stealth is often used to reflect the absence of recognition by defense proteins of the complement, and more generally opsonins that serve as binding enhancers for the process of phagocytosis.