“…Previous flow cytometric studies of hybridoma cells aimed to detect antibodies on the cell surface using only fluorescein-labeled anti-mouse IgG (Marder et al, 1990;Sen et al, 1990;McKinney et al, 1991;Kromenaker and Srienc, 1994;Cherlet et al, 1995;Borth et al, 2000). The lack of information on the specificity of the hybridoma cells, however, is the major disadvantage of this method and therefore it has not been used on a routine basis, yet.…”