Immunization of mice with DNA encoding fragment C of tetanus toxin

Vaccine

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 827-829

  Anderson, Richard ^a   Gao, Xiao Ming ^a   Papakonstantinopoulou, Anastasia ^a   Fairweather, Neil ^a   Roberts, Mark ^a,b   Dougan, Gordon ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fragment C protein; Immunization; Tetanus toxin

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GAMMA INTERFERON; TETANUS TOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHO CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA DETERMINATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLASMIDS; TETANUS; TETANUS TOXIN; TRANSFECTION; VACCINATION; VACCINES, DNA;

EID: 0030818760     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(96)00262-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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