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The objective of immunization is to produce polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies that react with a chosen molecule. Immunization may be in vivo by injecting antigen into animals to produce antisera or to provide B-lymphocytes for immortalization as hybridomas, or alternatively, in vitro using splenocytes from untreated animals (1) for subsequent fusion with myeloma cells to produce monoclonal antibodies (MAbs).
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Gullick, W.J. (1988). Production of Antisera to Synthetic Peptides. In: Walker, J.M. (eds) New Protein Techniques. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 3. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/0-89603-126-8:341
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