Abstract: The present invention relates to therapeutic and/or prophylactic uses of hydrazide compounds and to pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more of these compounds as an active component for treating a disease or disorder requiring modulation of vacuolar (H+)-ATPases.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for selecting hybridomas which produce antibodies specific to domains of a cell surface antigen which is usually not accessible at the surface of intact cells. The method employs the screening of the hybridoma clones obtained for the production of antibodies specific against the cell surface antigen by use of immunoblotting analysis, namely by screening the clones against antigen immobilized on a solid substrate such as nitrocellulose. The invention also includes those hybridomas and monoclonal antibodies when produced according to the method. The method provides monoclonal antibodies to P-glycoprotein surface antigen correlated with multidrug resistance. The antibodies are used to obtain a cDNA probe which in turn was used to select a cDNA clone encoding for a portion of the P-glycoprotein including the C-terminal end.