Early neutralizing antibody response against mouse mammary tumor virus: Critical role of viral infection and superantigen-reactive T cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2807-2814

  Luther, Sanjiv A ^a   Maillard, Ivan ^b   Luthi, Frédéric ^b   Scarpellino, Leonardo ^a   Diggelmann, Heidi ^b   Acha Orbea, Hans ^a,b  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPERANTIGEN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS, MOUSE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SUPERANTIGENS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0031571728     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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