Epitope repertoire of human CD4+ lines propagated with tetanus toxoid or with synthetic tetanus toxin sequences

Journal of Autoimmunity

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 79-88

  Raju, Raghavanpillai ^a,b   Diethelm Okita, Brenda ^a   Okita, David ^a,b   Conti Fine, Bianca M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

CD4+ T cell lines; Synthetic peptides; T cell epitopes

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; TETANUS TOXOID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0029968636     PISSN: 08968411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jaut.1996.0010     Document Type: Article

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