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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2017

Camelid Single-Domain Antibodies: Historical Perspective and Future Outlook.

Mehdi Arbabi-Ghahroudi

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 110 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

110 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Mehdi Arbabi-GhahroudiHuman Health Therapeutics Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tremendous effort has been expended over the past two and a half decades to understand many aspects of camelid heavy chain antibodies, from their biology, evolution, and immunogenetics to their potential applications in various fields of research and medicine. In this article, I present a historical perspective on the development of camelid single-domain antibodies (sdAbs or V

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antibody engineeringcamelid single-domain antibodyheavy chain antibodynanobodytherapeutic antibodyVHH

Identifiers

PMID29209322
PMCPMC5701970

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