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Contents of volume 278 (2003) Volume 278, Nos. 1 – 2 Reviews Strategies for detection, measurement and characterization of unwanted antibodies induced by therapeutic biologicals M. Wadhwa, C. Bird, P. Dilger, R. Gaines-Das and R. Thorpe (UK) Supported planar bilayers in studies on immune cell adhesion and communication J.T. Groves and M.L. Dustin (USA) Research Papers Modified flow cytometry and cell-ELISA methodology to detect HLA class I antigen processing machinery components in cytoplasm and endoplasmic reticulum T. Ogino, X. Wang and S. Ferrone (USA, Japan) Centrifugation facilitates transduction of green fluorescent protein in human monocytes and macrophages by adenovirus at low multiplicity of infection G.C. Mayne, R.A. Borowicz, K.V.L. Greeneklee, J.J. Finlay-Jones, K.A. Williams and P.H. Hart (Australia) Monitoring CD4+ T cell responses against viral and tumor antigens using T cells as novel target APC D. Atanackovic, M. Matsuo, E. Ritter, G. Mazzara, G. Ritter, E. Ja¨ger, A. Knuth, L.J. Old and S. Gnjatic (USA, Germany) The humoral response to in vitro generated parasite antigens is enhanced by the removal of a defined media component prior to immunization C.G. Earnhart and S.L. Kaattari (USA) CD4+ and CD8+ cells in cryopreserved human PBMC maintain full functionality in cytokine ELISPOT assays C.R. Kreher, M.T. Dittrich, R. Guerkov, B.O. Boehm and M. Tary-Lehmann (USA, Germany) Individualized human scFv vaccines produced in plants: humoral anti-idiotype responses in vaccinated mice confirm relevance to the tumor Ig A.A. McCormick, S.J. Reinl, T.I. Cameron, F. Vojdani, M. Fronefield, R. Levy and D. Tuse´ (USA) New methods and software tools for high throughput CDR3 spectratyping. Application to T lymphocyte repertoire modifications during experimental malaria A. Collette, P.-A. Cazenave, S. Pied and A. Six (France) Preliminary evaluation of a lateral flow immunoassay device for screening urine samples for the presence of sulphamethazine M. O’Keeffe, P. Crabbe, M. Salden, J. Wichers, C. Van Peteghem, F. Kohen, G. Pieraccini and G. Moneti (Ireland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Israel, Italy) Neutralization of the biological activity of cytokines and other protein effectors by antibody: theoretical formulation of antibody titration curves in relation to antibody affinity Y. Kawade, N. Finter and S.E. Grossberg (Japan, UK, USA) Effects of cryopreservation on lymphocyte immunophenotype and function A. Costantini, S. Mancini, S. Giuliodoro, L. Butini, C.M. Regnery, G. Silvestri and M. Montroni (Italy, USA) T-bet/GATA-3 ratio as a measure of the Th1/Th2 cytokine profile in mixed cell populations: predominant role of GATA-3 H. Chakir, H. Wang, D.E. Lefebvre, J. Webb and F.W. Scott (Canada) Validation of FPA and cELISA for the detection of antibodies to Brucella abortus in cattle sera and comparison to SAT, CFT, and iELISA J.A. McGiven, J.D. Tucker, L.L. Perrett, J.A. Stack, S.D. Brew and A.P. MacMillan (UK)
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A specific ELISA for measuring neurofilament heavy chain phosphoforms A. Petzold, G. Keir, A.J.E. Green, G. Giovannoni and E.J. Thompson (UK) Rapid genotyping of MBL2 gene mutations using real-time PCR with fluorescent hybridisation probes R. Steffensen, K. Hoffmann and K. Varming (Denmark, Germany) Molecular cloning, functional characterization, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay of cynomolgus monkey Fas ligand Y. Kirii, T. Inoue, K. Yoshino, N. Kayagaki, H. Yagita, K. Okumura, H. Shibata, Y. Yoshikawa and K. Terao (Japan) Resistance of cellular membrane antigens to solubilization with Triton X-100 as a marker of their association with lipid rafts— analysis by flow cytometry A.V. Filatov, I.B. Shmigol, I.I. Kuzin, G.V. Sharonov and A.V. Feofanov (Russia, USA) Flow cytometric analysis of cytokine receptor signal transduction S. Ilangumaran, D. Finan and R. Rottapel (Canada) Recombinant Technology Generation of microglia specific reagents from phage displayed peptide libraries K. Lundin, J. Aarum, L. Appelsved, A. Johansson-Borg, E. von Garrelts, J. Dypbukt, K. Sandberg and M.A.A. Persson (Sweden) Combining EL4-B5-based B-cell stimulation and phage display technology for the successful isolation of human anti-Scl-70 autoantibody fragments M. Weber, E. Weiss and A.M. Engel (Germany, France) A method for the absolute quantification of cDNA using real-time PCR J.A. Whelan, N.B. Russell and M.A. Whelan (UK) Hevein-specific recombinant IgE antibodies from human single-chain antibody phage display libraries M.-L. Laukkanen, S. Ma¨kinen-Kiljunen, K. Isoherranen, T. Haahtela, H. So¨derlund and K. Takkinen (Finland) Protocols Simple and cost-effective isolation of monocytes from buffy coats U. Repnik, M. Knezevic and M. Jeras (Slovenia) Study of T-cell signaling by somatic cell mutagenesis and complementation cloning M.E. Cvijic, G. Xiao and S.-C. Sun (USA)
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Computational Modeling An analysis tool to quantify the efficiency of cell tethering and firm-adhesion in the parallel-plate flow chamber Y. Zhang and S. Neelamegham (USA)
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Software Notice PPLATE: a computer program for analysis of parallel-plate flow chamber experimental data Y. Zhang and S. Neelamegham (USA)
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