Immunomodulatory Activity of G-Actin Fragments Containing a Thymopentin-Like Sequence

Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 419-425

  Siemion, Ignacy Z ^a   Strug, Iwona ^a   Wysłouch Cieszyńska, Aleksandra ^a   Nowak, Ewa ^b   Wieczorek, Zbigniew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

Author keywords

G actin; Thymopoietin; Thymopoietin like motif

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; THYMOPENTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CBA MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHEMISTRY; COELENTERATE; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; ERYTHROCYTE; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; SHEEP; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYNTHESIS;

ACTINS; ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ERYTHROCYTES; HYDRA; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RABBITS; SHEEP; THYMOPENTIN;

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