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"Targeting Immunotherapy using the Avidin-Biotin System for a Human Colon Adenocarcinoma in vitro."

Published in Cancer Weekly, March 10th, 1997

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of International Medical Research, "A new method of targeting immunotherapy using the avidin-biotin system in vitro was investigated. Both an anticarcinoembryonic antigen monoclonal antibody (anti-CEA MAb) and an anti-cancer drug, neocarzinostatin (NCS), were biotinylated. A human colon adenocarcinoma cell line (LoVo) was immunized with biotinylated anti-CEA MAb; avidin was added, and the cell line was incubated with various concentrations of biotinylated NCS for either 72 h or 7 min. In the incubation for 72 h, the IC50 was similar (approximate to 0.45 (mu)g/ml) for biotinylated NCS for LoVo cells...

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