JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGICAL ui METHODS = BATS LSEV IER Journal of Immunological Methods 215 (1998) 191-192 Contents of volume 215 ( 1998) Numbers 1 and 2 — 1 June 1998 Research papers Isolation and purification of immunoglobulins from chicken eggs using thiophilic interaction chromatography P. Hansen, J.A. Scoble, B. Hanson and N.J. Hoogenraad (Australia) Detection of low-affinity adhesion ligands by linking recombinant cell adhesion molecules in uniform orientation to a fluorescently labelled dextran molecule by means of hexahistidine tagging: the case of multimeric CD40 G. Vassiliou, K. Jakobsen and C.R. Parish (Australia) Kinetic analysis of immunointeractions with covalently immobilized fatty acid-binding protein using a grating coupler sensor M. Orban, A. Katerkamp, R. Renneberg, F. Spener and K. Cammann (Germany, China) Generation of chimeric monoclonal antibodies from mice that carry human immunoglobulin Cyl heavy or Cx« light chain gene segments G. Pluschke, A. Joss, J. Marfurt, C. Daubenberger, O. Kashala, M. Zwickl, A. Stief, G. Sansig, B. Schlapfer, S. Linkert, H. Van der Putten, N. Hardman and M. Schroder (Switzerland, USA) Effect of bacterial invasion of macrophages on the outcome of assays to assess bacterium—macrophage interactions T.F. De Koning-Ward, T. Grant, F. Oppedisano and R.M. Robins-Browne (Australia) Competitive reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction for quantifying pre-MRNA and mRNA of major acute phase proteins L.E. Jensen and A.S. Whitehead (Ireland, USA) Enhanced T cell proliferation and increased responder frequency following delivery of antigen to the antigen-presenting cell; B cell dependency and use in detection of autoreactive T cells E.J. Stevens and M. Peakman (UK) A europium fluoroimmunoassay for measuring peptide binding to MHC class I molecules P.E. Jensen, J.C. Moore and A.E. Lukacher (USA) Improved IL-2 detection for determination of helper T lymphocyte precursor frequency in limiting dilution assay M. Winandy, P. Lewalle, V. Deneys, A. Ferrant and M. De Bruyeére (Belgium) Immunochemical approaches to AGE-structures: characterization of anti-AGE antibodies K. Ikeda, R. Nagai, T. Sakamoto, H. Sano, T. Araki, N. Sakata, H. Nakayama, M. Yoshida, S. Ueda and S. Horiuchi (Japan) Optimized conditions for gene transfection into the human eosinophilic cell line EoL-1 by electroporation H. Ohyama, J. McBride and D. T.W. Wong (USA) High-resolution analysis of T-cell receptor B-chain repertoires using DNA heteroduplex tracking: generally stable, clonal CD8 + expansions in all healthy young adults D.-F. Shen, L. Doukhan, S. Kalams and E. Delwart (USA) Quantification of cytokine mRNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells using branched DNA (bDNA) technology L.-P. Shen, P. Sheridan, W.W. Cao, P.J. Dailey, J.F. Salazar-Gonzalez, E.C. Breen, J.L. Fahey, M.S. Urdea and J.A. Kolberg (USA, Mexico) The usefulness of Diffusion-In-Gel-ELISA in clinical practice as illustrated by a Campylobacter jejuni outbreak H. Gunnarsson and A. Svedhem (Sweden) Expressed luciferase viability assay (ELVA) for the measurement of cell growth and viability D.R. Coombe, A.-M. Nakhoul, S.M. Stevenson, S.E. Peroni and C.J. Sanderson (Australia) Cross-linked filamentous phage as an affinity matrix G.P. Smith, V.A. Petrenko and L.J. Matthews (USA) Mucosal antibodies can be measured in air-dried samples of saliva and feces H. Vetvik, H.M.S. Grewal, I.L. Haugen, C. Ahrén and B. Haneberg (Norway, Sweden) Transient transfection of primary T helper cells by particle-mediated gene transfer H. Huang, C. Pannetier, J. Hu-Li and W.E. Paul (USA) 192 Contents of volume 215 (1998) Generation, characterization and utilization of anti-human growth hormone 1-43, (hGH, _,,), monoclonal antibodies in an ELISA C.C. Lépez-Guajardo, L.S. Armstrong, L. Jordan, N.R. Staten, G.G. Krivi, A-O. Martinez and L.S. Haro (USA) Short communication Cytokine production in human mixed leukocyte reactions performed in serum-free media A. Bishara, R. Malka, C. Brautbar, V. Barak, I. Cohen and E. Kedar (Israel) Contents of volume 215 (1998) Notes to Authors Protocols: Notes to Authors