Development of specific anti-thymosin β10 antipeptide antibodies for application in immunochemical techniques

Peptides

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1091-1096

  Leondiadis, Leondios ^a   Livaniou, Evangelia ^a   Vassiliadou, Irene ^a   Ferderigos, Nikolas ^b   Ithakissios, Dionyssis S ^a   Evangelatos, Gregory P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

antigenic predictions; antipeptide antibodies; ELISA; thymosin 10; thymosin 4

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; THYMOSIN; THYMOSIN BETA4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CATTLE; CROSS REACTIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; THYMOSIN;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0029957405     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(96)00187-8     Document Type: Article

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