Immunostimulatory DNA: A clear and present danger?

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 829-831

  Pisetsky, David S ^a  

^a Apartment No 1307   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; AMINO ACID; ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA INTERFERON; CARCINOGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT; CYTOKINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA VACCINE; ENDOTOXIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 6; MUTAGENIC AGENT; NUCLEASE; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHOROTHIOIC ACID; PLASMA PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA HELIX; GENE; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MICE; VACCINES, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030844985     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0897-829     Document Type: Short Survey

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