Comparison of immune responses in calves fed heat-treated or unheated colostrum Colostrum treatments and calves assigned to each are described in Table 2, and values from RID and ELISA for colostrum IgG are given. The ELISA has been shown to underestimate IgG concentration relative to RID, and direct comparison of values between methods is discouraged (Gelsinger…
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Passive In-Vitro Tests In Zoo/Wild Animals
Passive In-Vitro Tests In Zoo/Wild Animals Pacific Northwest human immunodiagnostics laboratory Kent Laboratories, Inc. is a FDA registered facility situated between Vancouver, B.C. and Seattle, WA. One of the first commercial laboratories started in Washington state, they specialize in providing researchers and medical professionals with high tittered polyclonal antibodies at an economical price using antigens…
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Immunoglobulin in Dairy Calves – Failure of Passive Transfer (FPT)
Immunoglobulin in Dairy Calves – Failure of Passive Transfer (FPT) On-farm quality comparison tests evaluated whole blood kits (Midland BioProducts Inc., Boone, lA) versus plasma kits (Triple J Farms, Bellingham, WA), and their ability to assess the success or failure of the passive transfer of immunoglobulins to dairy calves following their birth. [1] Understanding FPT…
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Research for a safer smallpox vaccine
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