despite the major advances in conventional forms of treatment (i.e. surgical techniques, radiotherapy and chemotherapy) and improved survival rates, cancer is still the second leading cause of death in developing countries. one major limitation of cytotoxic drugs and radiation in the treatment of cancer patients is their inability to discriminate between malignant and normal tissues. this in tu...

A major advantage of using monoclonal antibodies over polyclonal antisera is the potential availability of large quantities of the specific monoclonal antibody. In general, preparations containing the monoclonal antibody include a hybridoma supernatant, ascites fluid from a mouse inoculated with the hybridoma, and purified monoclonal antibody. Hybridoma supernatants are easy to produce, especia...

Tezepelumab (Tezspire) is a new monoclonal antibody therapy for add‐on treatment in adolescents and adults with inadequately controlled severe asthma. This article outlines its mode of action, indication clinical trial outcomes.

Background: Monoclonal antibody technology allows identification of amastigote-specific antigen in human tissue biopsies and search for a suitable vaccine candidate, which may induce a long lasting immunity. Objectives: Production and partial characterization of seven monoclonal antibodies against Leishmania tropica promstigotes. Methods: Seven murine monoclonal antibodies of the IgG isotype we...

Bovine Viral Diarrhea virus (BVDV) is an important viral pathogen of cattle causing several clinical syndromes. There are usually no pathognomonic clinical signs of BVDV infection. Diagnostic investigations therefore rely on serological detection and virus isolation. Nonstructural protein 3 (NS3) as immunogenic protein of BVDV is genetically and antigenically conserved among different isolates....

conclusions the cell lines obtained in this work secreted potent, stable and specific anti-bv mabs, which were suitable for the development of herpes b virus diagnosis reagents. background herpes b virus (bv) is a zoonotic disease caused by double-stranded enveloped dna virus with cercopithecidae as its natural host. the mortality rate of infected people could be up to 70% with fatal encephalit...

vp2 gene coding region of a vaccinal strain (d78) of infectious bursal disease virus (ibdv) was clonedin a eukaryotic expression vector, psec tag2a. the gene was placed downstream of ig κ chain leadersequence, under the control of human cytomegalovirus (hcmv) immediate early enhancer and promoter. theconstruct psec tag2a-vp2 was transfected in cos-7 cell line and the expression and secretion of...