General Notes
Mouse anti Pig CD52, clone K263.3D7 is a monoclonal antibody recognizing porcine SWC1a, originally assigned at the 1st International Swine Cluster of Differentiation (CD) Workshop. SWC1a (CD52) is a cell surface molecule which is expressed by most leucocytes including resting T cells, monocytes and granulocytes. SWC1a is not expressed by the majority of B cells, erythrocytes or platelets (Leitner et al. 2012). SWC1a, expressed at very much higher levels on monocytes than on mature macrophages, can be used with SWC9, expressed exclusively on mature tissue macrophages, to study intermediate stages of monocyte-macrophage differentiation (Sanchez et al. 1999).