Blocking glomerular immunoglobulin deposits in a mouse model of lupus nephritis on indirect immunofluorescence with the use of Fab fragments

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 376, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 139-142

  Petrakis, Ioannis ^a   Mavroeidi, Vasiliki ^a   Stylianou, Kostas ^a   Giannakakis, Konstantinos ^b   Daphnis, Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blocking; Deposits; IgG; Immunofluorescence; Lupus; Nephritis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOMERULUS; HEAVY CHAIN; HOST; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEPOSITION; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FAB FRAGMENTS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; LUPUS NEPHRITIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED NZB; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MURINAE;

EID: 84856528560     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: 18727905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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