Detection of particular antibodies is a very common form of medical diagnostics, and applications such as serology depend on these methods.
In that study patients were excluded based on the presence of particular antibodies to the vector AAV2 and treatment was only administered to one eye as a precaution.
When a certain antigen is found, there are also always particular antibodies found.
Independently, and at about the same time, the scientists at Berkeley discovered that one particular known antibody can act as an enzyme in cutting a common organic chemical called a carbonate.
These are often referred to as CD markers and define several hundred different cell surface components of cells, each specified by binding of a particular monoclonal antibody.
His experiment, reported in November, began by manipulating an immune cell that produces a particular antibody.
Serostatus is a term denoting the presence or absence of particular antibodies in an individual's blood.
A particular antibody often selects for a subpopulation of its target protein that has the epitope exposed, thus failing to identify any proteins in complexes that hide the epitope.
This particular antibody, which was detected in blood, develops as an immune system response to a protein called mesothelin.
If the unknown virus matches a particular antibody, they will stick together, and dyes will detect them.