Novel monoclonal antibodies against mouse C3 interfering with complement activation: Description of fine specificity and applications to various immunoassays

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 1213-1221

  Mastellos, Dimitrios ^a   Prechl, József O ^b   László, Glória ^b   Papp, Krisztián ^b   Oláh, Eszter ^b   Argyropoulos, Emelia ^a   Franchini, Silvia ^a   Tudoran, Ruxandra ^a   Markiewski, Maciej ^a   Lambris, John D ^a   Erdei, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

C3; ELISA; Monoclonal antibody; Mouse

Indexed keywords

ANAPHYLATOXIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMOLYSIS; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 10744229966     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2003.10.019     Document Type: Article

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