From epitopes to peptides to immunotherapy

Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 80, Issue 3 II, 1996, Pages

  Hoyne, Gerard ^a   Bourne, Timothy ^a   Kristensen, Nanna ^a   Hetzel, Charlotte ^a   Lamb, Jonathan ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; EPITOPE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PEPTIDE;

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOWN REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0029815489     PISSN: 00901229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clin.1996.0138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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