Avian vitellin antibodies (IgY) obtained after immunization with mouse IgG and mouse IgM in the presence or absence of Freund"s complete adjuvant are suited for labelling with FITC or biotin. In FACS analysis the antibodies prove to be excellent tools in detecting mouse monoclonal antibodies of different isotypes. The working dilution (titer of IgY-FITC) is highest when egg preparations of the ...

Eysenhardtia polystachya is widely used in folk medicine as an anti-rheumatic and analgesicagent, but no systematic study of its effects on several markers associated with rheumatoidarthritis and its ethnomedical use as analgesic agent has been performed. We evaluated theanti-arthritic and antinociceptive properties of an ethanolic extract of E. polystachya (EE) barkand its rich-flavonoids frac...

Adjuvants are considered to play an important role in directing the isotype and amount of antibodies produced upon immunization by conducting the development of either Th-1 or Th-2 cells upon T-cell stimulation. This is based on the different cytokine production patterns that were observed after in vitro resttmulation of T cells isolated from mice immunized with antigen either adsorbed on alum ...

Chronic actinomycetoma associated with grain production was induced in BALB/c mice by subcutaneous inoculation of live Nocardia brasiliensis in Freund incomplete adjuvant into the hind footpads. Similar inoculation of N. asteroides and N. caviae resulted in local tumor formation which healed spontaneously after 5 months, the disease disseminating into the peritoneum, where masses or organisms c...

Block (1975) extended bivariate exponential distributions (BVEDs) of Freund (1961) and Proschan and Sullo (1974) to multivariate case and called them as Generalized FreundWeinman's multivariate exponential distributions (MVEDs). In this paper, we obtain MLEs of the parameters and large sample test for testing independence and symmetry of k components in the generalized Freund-Weinman's MVEDs.