Monoclonal Antibodies

Monoclonal antibodies (mAb or moAb) are monospecific antibodies that are identical because they are produced by one type of immune cellthat are all clones of a single parent cell. Given (almost) any substance, it is possible to create monoclonal antibodies that specifically bind to that substance; they can then serve to detect or purify that substance. This has become an important tool in biochemistry, molecular biology andmedicine. When used as medications, the generic name ends in -mab (see "Nomenclature of monoclonal antibodies").

LINKS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclonal_antibodies

A very nice animated link -

http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/monoclonalantibodies.html

One more excellent video link -

http://www.1lec.com/Immunology/Monoclonal%20Antibodies/index.html

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/IE/Monoclonal_Antibody.php

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/monoclonal.php

http://www.meds.com/immunotherapy/monoclonal_antibodies.html

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/content/ETO_1_4X_Monoclonal_Antibody_Therapy_Passive_Immunotherapy.asp

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/monoclonal-antibody/CA00082

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/M/Monoclonals.html