A specific antibody response to HCV E2 elicited in mice by intramuscular inoculation of plasmid DNA containing coding sequences for E2

Hepatology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 459-462

  Tedeschi, Valeria ^a,d   Akatsuka, Toshitaka ^a   Shih, James Wai Kuo ^b   Battegay, Manuel ^c,e   Feinstone, Stephen M ^a,f  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e KANTONSSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; EPITOPE; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; DNA TRANSFECTION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VACCINATION; VIRUS ENVELOPE;

EID: 0031022661     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510250234     Document Type: Article

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