Localization of cryptic tolerogenic epitopes in the α1-helical region of the RT1.A(u) alloantigen

Transplantation

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1373-1379

  Wang, Min ^a   Stepkowski, Stanislaw M ^a   Yu, Jiang ^a   Wang, Mou Er ^a   Kahan, Barry D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; EPITOPE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA SPLICING; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALS; EPITOPES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNIZATION; ISOANTIGENS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RATS; RATS, INBRED ACI; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, INBRED WF; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 0030927613     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199705270-00001     Document Type: Article

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