Preclinical pharmacokinetic (PK) assays are important to help evaluate the safety and efficacy of a potential biotherapeutic before clinical studies. The assay typically requires a biotherapeutic-specific reagent to minimize matrix effects especially when the host species are non-human primates such as cynomolgus monkeys and the biotherapeutic is a humanized monoclonal antibody (MAb). Recombinant humanized mAb 2H7 (rhuMAb2H7) binds to the extracellular domain of CD20 that is expressed on B cells and results in B cell depletion.
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