Antibody response to sheep red blood cells in platypus and echidna

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 957-963

  Wronski, Eileen V ^a   Woods, Gregory M ^a   Munday, Barry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antibody response; Echidna; Ig isotype switch; IgG; IgM; Monotremes; Platypus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY STRUCTURE; ANTIBODY TITER; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHIDNA; ERYTHROCYTE; HEAT SENSITIVITY; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PLATYPUS; PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION; RABBIT; SHEEP;

EUTHERIA; MONOTREMATA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0345320096     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(03)00325-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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