Assessment of Humoral Immune Response in Mink (Mustela Vison): Antibody Production and Detection

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 358-361

  Smits, Judit E G ^a   Godson, Dale L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antibody response; DNP KLH; Humoral immunity; Mink; Mustela vison; Protein A

Indexed keywords

MUSTELA PUTORIUS; MUSTELA PUTORIUS FURO; MUSTELA VISON;

2,4 DINITROPHENOL; ANTISERUM; HAPTEN; HEMOCYANIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; KEYHOLE LIMPET HEMOCYANIN; KEYHOLE-LIMPET HEMOCYANIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FERRET; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MINK;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; DINITROPHENOLS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FERRETS; HAPTENS; HEMOCYANIN; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MALE; MINK; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A;

EID: 0030119433     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-32.2.358     Document Type: Article

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