Identification of murine protective epitopes on the Porphyromonas gingivalis fimbrillin molecule

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 434-440

  Deslauriers, Manon ^a   Haque, Salma ^a   Flood, Patrick M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIMBRIA; HELPER CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PORPHYROMONAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0030049935     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.2.434-440.1996     Document Type: Article

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