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Variation of NimC1 expression in Drosophila stocks and transgenic strains.
Fly - 1 Jan 2000
Honti Viktor, Cinege Gyöngyi, Csordás Gábor, Kurucz Eva, Zsámboki János, Evans Cory J, Banerjee Utpal, Andó István
Abstract excerpt
The NimC1 molecule has been described as a phagocytosis receptor, and is being used as a marker for professional phagocytes, the plasmatocytes, in Drosophila melanogaster. In studies including tumor-biology, developmental biology, and cell mediated immunity, monoclonal antibodies (P1a and P1b) to the NimC1 antigen are used. As we observed that these antibodies did not react with plasmatocytes of several strains...
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