A sensitive assay for measuring α-Gal epitope expression on cells by a monoclonal anti-Gal antibody

Transplantation

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1129-1132

  Galili, Uri ^a   Latemple, Denise C ^a   Radic, Marko Z ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; FETUIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LAMININ; N ACETYLLACTOSAMINE SYNTHASE; THYROGLOBULIN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GRAFT REJECTION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RABBITS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TRISACCHARIDES;

EID: 0032571848     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199804270-00020     Document Type: Article

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