Antibody treatment is a type of therapy that is used to
treat certain types of cancer and immune disorders. Antibodies are proteins
which are naturally formed by the body in response to a foreign substance,
known as an antigen. Antibodies can also be grown outside of the patient’s body
and injected into them to help aid the immune system to fight disease. These
types of antibodies are typically called monoclonal antibodies because they are
created to target one specific antigen.Herceptin and Avast in, two widely used
cancer fighting drugs, are examples of monoclonal antibodies. Human anti-mouse antibodies are human immunologists
with specificity for mouse immunologists. This topic currently is of interest
because of the increased use of monoclonal mouse antibodies as diagnostic
reagents both for in laboratory measurements and for in viva imaging studies.
Monoclonal mouse antibodies also are being used therapeutically.
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