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  • Title: Development of monoclonal antibodies reactive with methamphetamine raised against a new antigen.
    Author: Terazawa K, Ji LY, Takatori T, Aoki K, Hirose Y, Kuroiwa Y.
    Journal: J Immunoassay; 1991; 12(2):277-92. PubMed ID: 2045481.
    Abstract:
    Monoclonal antibodies (McAbs) specific to methamphetamine (MA) were produced using p-amino MA coupled to bovine serum albumin (BSA) with glutaraldehyde (GA) as an immunogen and with conventional hybridoma techniques. Hybridoma clones secreting the McAbs were selected by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) system using both the above conjugate and BSA modified with GA as screening antigens. In the ELISA system were used avidin and biotinyl-alkaline phosphatase which converts nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP) into NAD. The final enzyme activity was determined using diformazan of nitroblue tetrazolium formed together with the NAD produced, alcohol dehydrogenase and phenazine methosulfate. The McAbs from 9 clones were characterized by a crossreactivity test using the ELISA. The McAbs recognized MA (100%), methoxyphenamine (8.0%), ephedrine (2.3%), but did not react with metylephedrine, amphetamine, OH-amphetamine, dimethylamphetamine, beta-phenylethylamine, norephedrine, phentermine and ranitidine. An inhibition curve for MA was obtained in the range of 0.75 to 50 ng.
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