Diagnosis and assessment of preclinical and clinical autoimmune encephalomyelitis using peripheral blood lymphocyte TCR

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2751-2759

  Kim, Giok ^a   Kohyama, Kuniko ^a   Tanuma, Naoyuki ^a   Matsumoto, Yoh ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CDR3 spectratyping; Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis; Peripheral blood lymphocyte

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ALPHA-CHAINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0031694281     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199809)28:09<2751::AID-IMMU2751>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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