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Reaction
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Reaction
A decline in prices following an advance. Opposite of rally.

reaction
A decline in security prices following a period of rising security prices.

Reaction
A decrease in price following an increase in price. A reaction connotes a slow decline; it is the opposite of a recovery.


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The new system, which consists of a lab-on-a-chip, laser-induced fluorescence detection device and analysis method based on antigen-antibody reaction and electrophoresis, can rapidly measure stress-related substances secretory immunoglobulin A (S-IgA) and cortisol in salivary samples.
Thus, although cromolyn has no effect on the mediators released from the antigen-antibody reaction of an acute asthma attack, it prevents later bronchoconstriction by impairing the release of mediators.
 
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