monoclonal antibodies

• Lymphocyte


  White blood cell that makes antibodies
• Monoclonal antibodies are identical copies of an antibody produced by a single clone of plasma cells.
• monoclonal


  antibodies of the same type- protiens released by lymphocytes that bind to specific antigens
• step 1

  inject mouse with antigen
• antigen


  protiens found on the pathogen surface
• step 2

  isolate lymphocyte
• step 3

  antigens bind to the tumour cell
• step 4

  tumour cells replicate fast and form hybridoma cell
• why are monoclonal antibodies useful?


  • drugs for cancer
  • radioactive traces
  • flourescent protiens
• antibodies(same) + tumour cell = hybridoma --> monoclonal antibodies
• hybridoma


  mixed cell (lymphocyte and tumour cell)