Further Investigations on Thymopentin-Like Fragments of HLA-DQ and Their Analogs

Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 335-341

  Szewczuk, Zbigniew ^a   Wieczorek, Zbigniew ^b   Stefanowicz, Piotr ^a   Wilczyński, Andrzej ^a   Siemion, Ignacy Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fragments of HLA DQ; Interleukins; Peptide immunosuppressors

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPEPTIDE; CYTOKINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; THYMOPENTIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CBA MOUSE; CELL LINE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CYTOKINES; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; THYMOPENTIN;

EID: 0031297227     PISSN: 0004069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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