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monoclonal antibody
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monospecific antibody that is made by identical immune cells that are all clones of a unique parent cell
Research
420,584 papers- Monoclonal antibody therapeutics: history and future.Current opinion in pharmacology · 2012
- Monoclonal antibody therapy.Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library · 2006
- Monoclonal Antibody Therapy for Ebola Virus Disease.The New England journal of medicine · 2019
- Monoclonal antibody therapy for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder: current and future.The International journal of neuroscience · 2017
- Monoclonal antibody interference in electrophoresis.Pathology · 2023
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Encyclopedic overview
A general representation of the method used to produce monoclonal antibodies
A monoclonal antibody (mAb, more rarely called moAb) is an antibody produced from a cell lineage made by cloning a unique white blood cell. All subsequent antibodies derived this way trace back to a unique parent cell.
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