Do DNA vaccines induce autoimmune disease?

Human Gene Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 293-300

  Mor, Gil ^a   Singla, Manav ^a   Steinberg, Alfred D ^b   Hoffman, Stephen L ^c   Okuda, Kenji ^d   Klinman, Dennis M ^a,e  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NOBLIS   (United States)

^c NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; DNA ANTIBODY; DNA VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MUSCLE ANTIBODY; PLASMID DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; LUPUS VULGARIS; MOUSE; MYOSITIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; VACCINATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030846040     PISSN: 10430342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hum.1997.8.3-293     Document Type: Article

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