Table of Contents | Production of Monoclonals Directed to Adhesive Molecules. Monoclonal Antibodies Specific for Leucocyte Adhesion Molecules: Selective Protocols of Immunization and Screening Assays for Generation of Blocking, Activating, and Activation Reporter Antibodies, Epitope Mapping, Sequencing of Antibodies. Isolation and Cloning of Adhesive Molecules. Purification Through Affinity Chromatography and Microsequencing. Functional Analysis of Cell Adhesion Molecules, Application of Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Discovery of New Adhesion Molecule Family Members. Construction and Purification of Adhesion Molecule-Immunoglobulin Chimeric Proteins, Morphological Localization of Adhesive Molecules and Related Cytoskeletal Components. Immunofluorescence of Cultured Cells, Detection of Adhesion Molecules by Immunohistochemistry on Human and Murine Tissue Sections, In situ Hybridization with RNA Probes. Adhesion of Circulating Cells to the Endothelium and to Extracellular Matrix Proteins. Purification of Fibronectin and Vitronectin from Human Plasma, Adhesion to Matrix Proteins, Leucocyte-Endothelial Monolayer Adhesion Assay (Static Conditions), Cell-Cell Adhesive Interactions in an In Vitro Flow Chamber, Adhesion of Tumor Cells to Endothelium Under Static Conditions. Adhesion of Tumor Cell Under Flow, Plaet Adhesion to the Subendothelium Under Flow. Plaet Adhesion to the Subendothelium Under Flow, Cell Chemotaxis. Leucocyte Transmigration Through Vascular Endothelium: An In Vitro Method, Cell Migration into a Wounded Area In Vitro. Endothelial Cell Permeability In Vitro. Determination of the Endothelial Barrier Function In Vitro. Induction of Intracellular Signals Through Binding of Adhesive Molecules. Activation of p125 FAK Tyrosine Phosphorylation, Induction of Ca2+ Flux by Adhesion Molecules in Lymphocytes. Integrin-Mediated Stimulation of Tyrosine Phosphorilation in Lymphoid Cells. The Identification of Signaling Molecules by the Yeast 2-Hybrid System, Index. |