What is the claustrum? The simple answer is that it’s a brain structure that lies under the insular and piriform cortices. What it does is rather unclear, but one hypothesis has drawn considerable attention. The claustrum contains projections to the entire cortex, and this may indicate that it plays an important role in brain function. 

Anti-CD22 (UV22-2) Mouse Monoclonal This IgG1k antibody (Cat. #AB-36) recognizes the group A epitope of the human B-cell antigen, CD22. Clone UV22-2 reacts exclusively with cells of human B-cell lineage. The fluorescent conjugate mouse IgG-FITC (Cat. #FL-07) is available as a research tool to use with this and other mouse monoclonal antibodies. Anti-CD22-SAP Immunotoxin This

In the January 26 issue of Science there was an article by Naqvi et al. about patients with brain damage to the insula losing their desire to smoke. A podcast interview with Dr. Bechara, one of the authors of the study, ended with him stating that there are a number of known receptors in the brain that should be

ATS has added three new products to our fluorescent conjugates line. Alexa488-labeled affinity purified NGFr* (Cat. #AB-N01APFLA) FITC-labeled Goat Anti-Rat IgG (Cat. #FL-10) FITC-labeled Donkey Anti-Goat IgG (Cat. #FL-11) *(Cat. #AB-N01AP) These conjugates are excellent tools to verify specific binding to an antigen. By first incubating cells with the primary antibody, and then binding the

Goat-ZAP (Cat. #IT-36) is a new secondary conjugate of affinity-purified rabbit anti-goat IgG and the ribosome-inactivating protein, saporin. This product uses affinity-purified rabbit anti-goat IgG to “piggyback” onto YOUR primary goat antibody in order to evaluate the ability of your primary antibody to internalize. Once the conjugate is internalized, saporin breaks away from the targeting