"Immunoassays in Food and Agriculture" is a comprehensive and up-to-date reference text on the use of immunochemistry in a wide variety of applications in the agricultural and environmental sciences, such as how to identify pathogens, food additives and contaminants. It begins with a concise and easy-to-understand overview of those principles of immunology appropriate to the rest of the book. The core of the book is then made up of practically oriented chapters that deal with the application of immunochemistry in animal and plant husbandry, in the analysis of foodstuffs, and in selected...

This book contains the Invited Lectures delivered at the meeting "structural and Kinetic Approach to Plasma Membrane Functions" held in Grignon/France on September 6-9, 1976. The meeting was intended as a discussion forum for physicists, physico-chemists, biochemists, bio- logists, and medical scientists, in an attempt to find as much "con- tact-surface" as possible. The Invited Lectures cover a broad spectrum of membrane preoccupations. The complexity of the topics, the variety of the techniques used, and above all the wide scope of the research work reported constitute an up-to-date...

1. 1 Antigens 9 1. 1. 1 Proteins 9 1. 1. 2 Polysaccharides 10 I. 1. 3 Haptens and carriers 11 1. 2 Antibodies 12 1. 2. 1 Isotypes 12 1. 2. 2 Paratopes 16 1. 2. 3 Allotypes 16 1. 2. 4 Idlotypes 17 1. 2. 5 Immunoglobulin synthesis 17 1. 2. 6 Immunoglobulin purification 18 - Salt precipitation 20 - Gel filtration 20 - Ion exchange chromatography 20 - Immuno affinity fractionation 23 1. 3 Antibody production 24 Immunogenicity and antigenicity 24 1. 3. 1 Adjuvants 25 1. 3. 2 26 1. 3. 3 Immunization 1. 3. 4 Polyclonal antibodies 28 1. 3. 5 Monoclonal antibodies 29 1. 4 Antigen-antibody reaction 32...