Human monocytoid cell lines as indicators of endotoxin: Comparison with rabbit pyrogen and Limulus amoebocyte lysate assay

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 135-145

  Eperon, Simone ^a   De Groote, Donat ^b   Werner Felmayer, Gabriele ^c   Jungi, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b BioSource Europe SA   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Limulus amoebocyte lysate; Lipopolysaccharide; Monocytoid cell lines; Pyrogen test; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PYROGEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELL LYSATE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIMULUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RABBIT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; LIMULUS; LIMULUS AMOEBOCYTE; NEGIBACTERIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0030669230     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(97)00112-9     Document Type: Article

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