Cf antibody

... or pathways, one common mechanism is to inhibit or knock out certain stage of the pathway and see what happens. Eliminate some receptor with an antibody or make a knock-out organism that lacks a gene for, say, some enzyme, and see what process gets modified/prevented, and then study the mechanism ...

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I'll to look up my immunology notes when I get back home, but I think remember that only the one-unit antibody (IgG) cross the placenta, not IgM and IgA. I think it may be possible that the antibody is IgM, case in which it won't cross. If my memory is correct then IgA won't ...

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... of doing my PhD in manipulating plants to produce antibodies for humans. I’m kind of stuck on the part of working out the gene that makes the antibody?...I know they are companies online that can produce a specific antibody from injecting a mammal with an antigen. I think I can get 20uL for ...

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... have plenty of chances to encounter their antigen (presented by APCs such as dendritic cells) or excert their effector function (e.g. to induce antibody production by B cells [CD4+ helper cells] or kill infected cells directly [CD8+ cytotoxic cells]) I don't have the RTE paper at hand at the ...

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... - even if it is a protruding protein, say a marker on a bacterium, it usually won't "present" to the immune system in such a way that an antibody can actually attach to the protein on the actual pathogen. I'll give an example - it was recently found that part of a protruding protein on ...

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