A TCR Vα CDR3-specific motif associated with lewis rat autoimmune encephalomyelitis and basic protein-specific T cell clones

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 5472-5483

  Buenafe, Abigail C ^a,b,c   Tsu, Rachel C ^c   Bebo Jr , Bruce ^a,c   Bakke, Antony C ^a   Vandenbark, Arthur A ^a,b,c   Offner, Halina ^a,c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; LEWIS RAT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; AUTOANTIGENS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONE CELLS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0031155388     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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