Q: Adjuvant

[Leslie Confer]

In article <Pine.3.89.9601202130.A539037367-0100000 at SKYCAT.USask.CA>,
   cheol.yun at usask.ca wrote:
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>Hi everybody!
>
>Is there any assay available to check whether or not antigen+adjuvant 
is
>good before inject to the animal?
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>Any input will be appreciated.
>
>
>Cheol H. Yun
>

Cheol:

I know of one method... it's a bioassay in which you take
the adjuvant in question and inject it into a similar animal of the 
same species and breeding. You then follow the rise in titer of
specific antibody over a period of six to twelve weeks.

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