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A set of monoclonal antibodies to an antigen can be prepared for many different reasons, such as structural investigation, purification by immunoabsorption, immunoassay, or immunohistochemistry. For these purposes, different properties of the antibodies are useful, and the number of different antibodies likely to be available after a single fusion makes possible rational selection of each particular monoclonal antibody in a way that was never possible when polyclonal antisera were all that were available.
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van Heyningen, V., van Heyningen, S. (1987). Ranking the Affinities of Monoclonal Antibodies. In: Bartal, A.H., Hirshaut, Y. (eds) Methods of Hybridoma Formation. Contemporary Biomedicine, vol 7. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4826-2_20
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