ELISpot (Drug Discovery) Reference
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The B cell ELISpot assay is central to the characterization of adaptive immune responses to infection, immune modulators, vaccines and therapeutic agents.
Combined with computational predictions, IFN-γ ELISpot is well applied in identification of novel DNA vaccine candidates. [1]
Together with skin transplantation, IFN-γ ELISpot was utilized to prove that treosulfan is a better candidate for conditioning to induce donor-specific allograft tolerance than other myeloablative regimens (eg irradiation or busulfan admin- istration) for its lower nonhematological toxicity.