Non-IgG therapeutic antibody applications

Non-IgG antibody diagnostic application mainly embodied in two aspects, —medical diagnosis and laboratory diagnosis. Specific antibodies detection is a common method of medical diagnosis, and serological examination is the best example. Microbes, proteins, self-antigens, tumor cells, and many other substances have their characteristic antigens. The presence and levels of specific antibody isotypes in samples taken from patients can provide assistance to human disorders diagnosis, not only for infections and inflammatory diseases but also for cancers and metabolic disorders. For example, increased IgA may indicate alcoholic cirrhosis and elevated IgM is a sign of viral hepatitis. On the other hand, non-IgG monoclonal antibodies can be employed as diagnostic reagents applied for a series of immunoassays, such as immunoprecipitation, radioimmunoassay, ELISA, etc.