Effects of thymectomy and tolerance induction on tumor immunity in adult Xenopus laevis

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 330-334

  Robert, Jacques ^a,b   Guiet, Chantal ^a   Cohen, Nicholas ^b   Pasquier, Louis Du ^a  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMECTOMY; TUMOR IMMUNITY;

ANIMALS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LARVA; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; THYMECTOMY; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031038576     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970127)70:3<330::AID-IJC14>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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