In order to develop an indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the insecticide imidacloprid, the anti-imidacloprid polyclonal antibody was produced and the affinity of three different coating antigens with the polyclonal antibody was compared. The antigenic determinant in antigen aiming at the polyclonal antibody was raised and analyzed. The standard curve for imidacl...

On the basis of serotyping 62 strains of Bordetella pertussis, Guiso and colleagues (N. Guiso, C. H. Wirsing von König, C. Becker, and H. Hallander, Letter, J. Clin. Microbiol. 39:1684– 1685, 2001) concluded that monoclonal and polyclonal reagents showed good concordance but that the source of the monoclonal antibodies needed to be specified. We have conducted a similar study on 209 strains of ...

Analysis of T cell proliferative responses to antigenic or mitogenic stimuli are based on e.g. the incorporation tritiated thymidine BrdU, CFSE labeling and detection secreted cytokines by ELISA ELISPOT assay. There inherent drawbacks these methods rather long ex vivo expansion, stimulation protocols inability distinguish specific populations assumption importance certain cytokines. Rapid ident...

Polyclonal antibodies collected from the blood of animals and humans experimentally immunised or spontaneously immunised respectively can be injected into patients to protect them against pathogens, toxins, tumours etc. This approach is severely limited by the availability of human polyclonal antibodies of interest. Moreover, polyclonal antibodies from animals are recognised as antigens by pati...

BACKGROUND Mortality from sepsis and septic shock remains high. Results of trials on intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) as adjunctive therapy for sepsis have been conflicting. This is an update of a Cochrane review that was originally published in 1999 and updated in 2002 and 2010. OBJECTIVES To estimate the effects of IVIG as adjunctive therapy in patients with bacterial sepsis or septic sho...