PURIFIED HUMAN MACROPHAGE RUN INHIBITING FACTOR AND MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY AGAINST SAME

摘要

The invention relates to purified human macrophage migration inhibitory factor (human MIF) and its individual proteins, to a process for the purification of human MIF and for the isolation of its individual proteins, to monoclonal antibodies against human MIF, derivatives thereof, processes for the preparation of these antibodies and derivatives thereof, hybridoma cell lines which produce these antibodies, processes for the preparation of said hybridoma cell lines, and to the use of the monoclonal antibodies and derivatives thereof for the qualitative and quantitative determination of human MIF in biological fluids and on cell surfaces, and to the use of the monoclonal antibodies for the purification of human MIF. Human MIF and monoclonal antibodies against human MIF are important for the diagnosis and therapy of immunoregulatory disorders and chronic inflammatory disorders.