Avian IgY antibodies: characteristics and applications in immunodiagnostic

摘要: Immunoglobulin Y (IgY) is the major antibody isotype in birds, reptiles, amphibia, and lungfish, playing a similar biological role as mammal IgG. Due to its phylogenetic distance, immune diversification presence egg yolk, IgY provide number of advantages immunodiagnostic compared IgG from mammals. Moreover, production agreement with international efforts reduce, refine if possible, replace animals experimentation, contributing substantially favor animal welfare. This article presents an overview about structural functional features, applications immunodiagnostic, well chicken antibodies use.