METHOD OF PREPARING A MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY, MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY, A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND A DIAGNOSTIC REAGENT

摘要

The present invention relates to an efficient method of producing monoclonal antibodies against surface antigens of cells and viruses. The method accommodates for antigens which are present in only relatively small amounts, or antigens of which only very small amounts are available or antigens which easily lose their in vivo conformation. Thus the method according to the invention comprises a series of steps, comprising a step in which B-cells from a mammal injected with surface antigen-comprising material are enriched with respect to the relative number of specific B-cells and a step which comprises a small-scale fusion technique.