[wwwtyro]

Wait - are you saying people could (were it legal) simply order this stuff from a company? Can you give me some kind of reference for this? If so, I could see people reaching out and finding others capable of placing the order.

[maxharris]

Here's CD47, conjugated to a fluorophor (when you have a cell covered in a conjugated antibody, it fluoresces when exposed to laser light - this is done so that an instrument called a flow cytometer can identify cells).

http://www.biolegend.com/percp-cy55-anti-human-cd47-4338.htm...

Of course, to get CD47 depletion, you'd probably want an antibody that isn't conjugated (functional grade):

http://www.ebioscience.com/resources/in-vivo-use-of-antibodi...

Also, some more help on the terminology: CD47 (and most, if not all molecules that fall under the Cluster of Differention [CD] nomenclature) vary on a per-species basis. So an antibody that targets CD47 in mice is not going to stick to human CD47. "Anti-" in this context means that the antibody in question will stick to specific molecule in the species that comes after the "anti-".

Note what it says on the bottom of the page. That's there because of regulations.

[wwwtyro]

Perfect, thanks for all this.