Talk:Monoclonal antibodies
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[edit] The
The title doesn't make sense in the singular "Monoclonal antibody", so I moved to the plural. AxelBoldt 14:55, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Request for section
Could you consider adding if not a section then a sentence or two about chimeric antibodies and humanized antibodies? I put up an item at 1986 in science that would benefit from a linkage to this concept/process. Thanks. Courtland 19:58, 2005 Feb 21 (UTC)
- It's better now. I've added Greg Winter's discovery of humanised monoclonal antibodies in 1988. JFW | T@lk 23:06, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Title
As noted above, I tried to move the article to "Monoclonal antibodies" once before, but it was moved back. I understand that Wikipedia policy requires article titles to be in the singular, but this appears to be a valid exception: the title in the singular makes little sense; the adjective "monoclonal", just like "identical", cannot modify a singular noun. If there is no opposition, I would therefore like to move the article back. AxelBoldt 17:57, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
I don't agree with the reasoning for the plural title. "identical" is commonly used to modify singular nouns, such as in "identical twin". A twin is one of a pair, thus singular. The same applies to "monoclonal antibody". It identifies one member of a group. --Blainster 19:13, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Surely, everybody calls them Monoclonal Antibodies in general and Monoclonal Antibody when refering to a specified clone.
GrahamColm 16:31, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Request for section: Herceptin
Herceptin is the comercial name for monoclonal Antibodies against the Erb-B2 (an Epidermal Grotwh Factor Receptor) often found over-expressed on cancers and used as treatment for those cancers. This is an important example of monoclonal antibodies. http://www.herceptin.com/herceptin/patient/metastatic/herceptin.jsp --JamMan 07:43, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Clone?
First sentence: How can a monoclonal antibody be a clone of a cell? An antibody is a peptide, not a cell. --aciel 23:51, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
