The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) has recently updated its guideline on the pharmacological management of migraine (SIGN 155) to include new information use anti‐CGRP monoclonal antibodies. This article provides a round‐up main changes guidance.

Ten selected murine hybridoma cell lines that produce monoclonal antibodies against M type 5 Streptococcus pyogenes and human heart antigen were isolated. All of the monoclonal antibodies studied were determined to be the immunoglobulin M isotype. The antibodies were characterized on the basis of their reactions with Triton X-100-extracted whole human heart antigens, sodium dodecyl sulfate-extr...

A monoclonal antibody (MAb), MO15, was raised against the lipopolysaccharide antigen of an epsilon15-lysogenized serogroup E(1) Salmonella strain. The O factor 15-specific MAb MO15, together with another serogroup E-specific MAb, can differentiate among phage lysogenization variants in serogroup E salmonellae. Their epitope specificities in relation to conventional O-antigenic structures are di...

A new monoclonal antibody, CSLEX1, directed against sialylated Lewisx was tested in parallel with a monoclonal antibody, CSLEA1, directed against sialylated Lewisa antigen. In tests with a solid-phase radioimmune sandwich assay, the sialylated Lewisx monoclonal antibody detected sera from certain cancer patients that were negative with the sialylated Lewisa monoclonal antibody. Some sera from c...

We are commenting on the article by Klein et al. on the functional properties of several anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in the January/February 2013 issue of mAbs. 1 Rituximab, the first monoclonal antibody approved for cancer therapy, has truly revolutionized the treatment of a variety of CD20 + hema-tological malignancies, 2,3 and also has been studied in a large number of autoimmune ...

Adhesion that is mediated by integrins is controlled dynamically to allow cell positioning and migration and to prevent abnormal trafficking and anchorage. Integrin signalling in response to ligand binding is achieved by a combination of receptor clustering and conformational changes. Both of these processes can be elicited from the inside of the cell (resulting in the acquisition of a highaffi...

Monoclonal antibodies (Mca) are aNTibodies ThaT are identical and derived from one type of immune cell, each a clone of a single parent cell. The extraordinarily specific nature of these antibodies is what makes MCA unique and opens up the possibilities of revolutionary applications including targeted therapy and other diagnostic applications (such as pregnancy test and testing for acquired imm...

In order to identify Rickettsia prowazekii in lice, we developed a panel of 29 representative monoclonal antibodies selected from 187 positive hybridomas made by fusing splenocytes of immunized mice with SP2/0Agl4 myeloma cells. Immunoblotting revealed that 15 monoclonal antibodies reacted with the lipopolysaccharide-like (LPS-L) antigen and 14 reacted with the epitopes of a 120-kDa protein. On...

Monoclonal antibodies against 12 of the 17 IATS serotype strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were produced. Eighty-seven hybridoma clones were isolated, and the antibodies secreted were found to be reactive with both Formalin-fixed whole cells and purified lipopolysaccharide of homologous strains in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. Among these monoclonal antibodies, the predominant antibody cl...

Complex pharmacokinetic (PK) properties including nonlinear elimination were encountered by some monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), and classic compartment models sometimes failed to appropriately describe those properties. In this work, a new model was built on a comprehensive analysis of the complex elimination of mAbs. This new model was firstly utilized to fit with the single-dose plasma concent...