Anti-Ms CD49d Purified

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The rat monoclonal antibody R1-2 recognizes an extracellular epitope of murine CD49d / Integrin alpha 4 (VLA-4 alpha), an approximately 150 kDa glycoprotein of the integrin family, expressed on multiple blood cell types.