The purpose of this project is to highlight some online resources that facilitate doing research in immunology with comparative animal models.  Conducting immunology research with species other than mice, rats, and humans is sometimes hampered by the limited number of reagents, techniques, and funding sources available.  This site seeks to make known what resources are available.

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American Type Culture Collection – a repository for a variety of cell lines including hybridomas producing antibodies against livestock antigens, for example bovine CD8

Antibodies Online - a market for over 84,000 antibodies, including many reagents that react with domestic animal species.

Antibody Cross Reactivity Resource – Maintained by Keith Bahjat at the University of Florida, at last check had data for 19 species.

Centre for Animal Biotechnology, University of Melbourne – a variety of antibodies to cell surface markers (including kits containing groups of antibodies), cytokines and cytokine receptors, cell surface molecules in livestock are available.  Note that CAB are in the process of changing the supply of the basic surface antigen monoclonals over to SEROTEC. The cytokine monoclonals will still be available directly from CAB and any other monoclonal that SEROTEC doesn't have listed. 

Endogen – provides cytokines and related reagents for veterinary research.

Equine Immunology Resource Page – from the Gluck Equine Research Center at the University of Kentucky, this is a valuable compilation of information regarding everything equine.

ExactAntigen.com – a searchable database of 9,000 monoclonals including information on species crossreactivity.

European Collection of Cell Cultures – a repository of a variety of cell lines including hybridomas producing antibodies of veterinary interest, for example ovine CD4 and  bovine CD45R

Monoclonal Antibody Center Taxonomic Key Program, Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine – A fantastic resource that lists antibodies available from multiple sources and lists their cross reactivity with a host of species.

Monoclonal antibodies to human leukocyte differentiation antigens that cross-react with cattle – self-explanatory, part of the Bovine Leucocyte Antigens page maintained by Paul Sopp, BBSRC. 

SEROTEC – A commercial source of antibodies against cytokines, cell surface molecules, and immunoglobulins for a cornucopia of species including amphibians, cattle, dogs, monkeys, and others.  A separate page devoted to antibodies of veterinary importance is maintained. 

Sixth Annual Workshop on Human Leukocyte Differentiation Antigens – a report on crossreactivity with bovine cells is available in Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology 78:197 (2001)

Southern Biotech – this commercial company sell antibodies against chicken, porcine, and feline cell surface molecules as well as to chicken immunoglobulins.

Contract Services, livestock trials, Centre for Animal Biotechnology, University of Melbourne

Thomas D. Morris, contract facility for immunology projects requiring animals

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Journal of Dairy Science

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

American Association of Veterinary Immunologists

Comparative and Veterinary Immunology Group – an affinity group of the British Society for Immunology

International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology

International Society for Immunology of Reproduction

Japanese Society for Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Centre for Animal Biotechnology, University of Melbourne

European Veterinary Immunology Group

Ovine Pregnancy Group, Rowett Institute

Washington State University, Agricultural Animal Health Program

American Society for Reproductive Immunology, 27^th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 14-16, 2007

X International Congress of reproductive Immunology, Opatija, Croatia, June 10-17, 2007

8^th International Veterinary Immunology Symposium, Ouro Preto, Brazil, August 16-19, 2007

USDA National Research Initiative, Animal Health Program

Florida International University, Certificate in Comparative Immunology

Rowett Research Institute, Post-Graduate Training

University of Florida, Animal Molecular and Cell Biology Graduate Program

Equine Immunology Resource Page – from the Gluck Equine Research Center at the University of Kentucky, this is a valuable compilation of information regarding everything equine.

IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system®  is a high-quality integrated knowledge resource specialized in

the immunoglobulins (IG), T cell receptors (TR), major histocompatibility complex (MHC), immunoglobulin superfamily and

related proteins of the immune system (RPI) of human and other vertebrate species, created in 1989 by Marie-Paule Lefranc

Veterinary Immunology listserv - a discussion group for researchers with an interest in immunology. An archive of past messages and 

instructions for subscribing are at the website.

Bovine Leucocyte Antigens