Mouse Antibody Production (MAP) Testing

 

Price:  Please call for pricing.
Time:  Six (6) Weeks

Mouse Antibody Production (MAP) testing requires about 25 x 106 cells. Three groups of mice will be inoculated: 1) cell suspension undiluted, 2) cell suspension diluted 1:5, and 3) controls which are sham inoculated with PBS.  Each mouse will be inoculated by the intraperitoneal and intranasal routes.  The mice are examined once a day for 28 days for signs of disease or mortality.

Twenty-eight days after inoculation, the test animals and the control animals will be bled.  The test sera and control sera are tested for antibody.

The standard panel includes testing the following agents:

  • MHV
  • Polyoma
  • Sendai
  • MVM
  • Parvovirus NS-1
  • PVM
  • LCM
  • Hantaan
  • REO 3
  • GDVII (TMEV)
  • K Virus
  • MCMV
  • Ectromelia
  • EDIM (Rotavirus) 
  • MPV
  • LDEV
  • MTV
  • MAD1
  • (M. Pulmonis [culture]/serology) 

The panel can be expanded, as an option, to include the following:

  • MAD 2
  • ECUN
  • MNV

Expanded LCM testing can also be provided as an option.

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