Characterisation of monoclonal antibodies specific for hamster leukocyte differentiation molecules.

"Conflict of interest The authors declare no conflict of interest."

"This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust [grant number WT08216MA]. Jenny Rees and David Haig were supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust to the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham and the Biomedical services department, University of Oxford for research studies as part of the D. Vet. Med. Sci course in laboratory animal medicine. William Davis and Victoria Mack were supported by the Washington State University Monoclonal Antibody Centre, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA. The mAbs can be obtained from Kingfisher Biotech http://www.kingfisherbiotech.com/ and the WSU Monoclonal Antibody Centre http://vmp.vetmed.wsu.edu/resources/monoclonal-antibody-center."