In article <3ckobo$sbg at newsbf01.news.aol.com>, Bio Bone (biobone at aol.com) writes:
>In article <3c95jm$nfl at news.kreonet.re.kr>, cojoe at sorak.kaist.ac.kr (Cheol
>O Joe) writes:
>>There is another way of generating good amounts of polyclonal antibody in
>mice and it takes much less antigen. I don't have the paper on it right
>in front of me now, but I have been using mice for several years to make
>polyclonal antibody when antigen is limiting. Essentially, pristane
>primed mice are immunized three to five times with 10-100ug protein until
>a good immune response is seen by screening the bleeds, then the mice are
>injected IP with SP2/0-Ag14 myloma cells which induce ascites formation.
>We have seen that the titer of the antibody in the resulting ascites is
>equivalent to the sera titer. You can generally get 5ml to 15ml of
>ascities per mouse.
>>Bradley Bone
>COR Therapeutics, Inc. responds:
A good, recent reference for polyclonal ascites production is
Analytical Biochemistry 220, 214-216, 1994. We just completed a
couple of such projects which worked out very well. Give it a try.
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