Sentences with phrase «performed by antibodies»

Among the functions performed by antibodies are preventing bacterial invasion of the intestines, neutralizing toxins and killing viruses.

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The old, slow test detected the auto - antibodies using radioactive materials, took several days, could only be performed by highly - trained lab staff and cost several hundred dollars per patient.

Similar experiments were performed demonstrating that the purified human antibodies also protected immunosuppressed hamsters against lethal disease caused by Sin Nombre virus.

Dr. Polonis» lab has focused for many years on functional antibodies elicited by natural infection and by vaccination, utilizing samples from multiple natural history cohorts and vaccine studies; her lab is currently performing an extensive analysis of pseudovirus neutralizing antibodies in the large RV144 follow - on trial, RV306.

Confirmation of CD44 positive population post treatment was performed by incubating cell suspension with CD44 primary antibody (Abcam)(1:500 dilution) followed by FITC / TRITC tagged secondary antibody (Abcam)(1:1000 dilution).

Research Focus: I am highly trained in producing and purifying monoclonal antibodies from Hybridoma cells, performing ELISA assays, preparing primary cells from organs and analyzing cell populations using FlowJo Cytometry data analysis software, isolating genomic DNA from animal tissues, maintaining and screening numerous transgenic and knock out mice lines by PCR and FACS.

Specifically, we will characterize the role of Clone 10 in red blood cell invasion and schizogeny by performing immunolocalization studies on infected red blood cells, and invasion / growth inhibition assays to determine the role of anti-Clone 10 antibodies in mediating resistance.

Immunofluorescent labeling was performed using anti-Olig2 (1 ∶ 4000, Chemicon) and anti-GFAP (1 ∶ 400, Cell Signaling) followed by fluorescently labeled, secondary anti-Ig antibodies (Alexa 488 and 568 conjugates, Invitrogen) at a 1 ∶ 2000 dilution.

and affinity of antibody ACI - 5400 were characterized by a panel of methods: (i) measuring the selectivity for a specific phospho - Tau epitope known to be associated with tauopathy, (ii) performing a combination of peptide and protein binding assays, (iii) staining of brain sections from mouse preclinical tauopathy models and from human subjects representing six different tauopathies, and (iv) evaluating the selective binding to pathological epitopes on extracts from tauopathy brains in non-denaturing sandwich assays.

Testing of 51 specimens from CFS patients and 56 matched and healthy controls from the US was performed independently in three laboratories for XMRV DNA by using several PCR tests and for anti-XMRV antibodies using different serological assays.

An isotyping ELISA was performed by coating a 96 - well plate with 1.25 ug / mL of the IgG1 Isotype Control Antibody and detecting with Alexa Fluor conjugates specific to mouse IgG1, IgG2a, IgG2b, IgG3, IgM and heavy and light chains (H&L) of IgG.

The most common test is the SNAP test, performed by your veterinarian to look for antibodies to FIV.

FIV blood tests performed by veterinarians measure antibody levels against the virus, and at present there is no reliable way to distinguish between an animal that has high antibody levels due to vaccination and one which has been infected by the FIV virus.

Diagnosis in the U.S. is done using a post-mortem direct fluorescence antibody test performed by a state - approved laboratory for rabies diagnosis.

Veterinarians can determine rather easily whether a cat has been exposed to FCoV by performing a blood test that detects coronavirus antibodies in the cat, but a positive result just means the cat's been exposed and has developed antibodies.

A study performed by vaccine manufacturer Vanguard using a COMBINATION vaccine (one which contains several different vaccines) tested the efficiency of the vaccine in stimulating antibodies in an immune response.

Coronavirus antibody tests are not standardized, so the test should be performed by the same laboratory to allow results from one test to be compared to the next test.