PREPARATION OF MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES TO HUMAN TYPE Ⅲ COLLAGEN AND THEIR LOCALIZATION IN NORMAL TISSUES / 解剖学报

ABSTRACT

Monoclonal antibodies, CAb-15 and CAb-16, were produced by using of spleen cells from Balb/c mice immunized with cell suspension of fresh hepatoma tissues with mouse myeloma Sp 2/0 cells. Western blotting showed that the antigen determinant of CAb-15 was situated on the ?_1 [Ⅲ] polypeptide chains and that of CAb-16 on the triple helical domain. The monoclonal antibodies were also used for immunohistochemical localization by ABC method in formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded sections of normal tissues from liver, kidney, aorta, skin, cartilage, placenta, stomach, breast and granulation tissues. The results showed that these antibodies are useful in immunohistochemical study for collagen.