Unresponsiveness following immunization with the T-cell-independent antigen dextran B512. Can it be abrogated?

Immunology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 402-408

  Sverremark, E ^a,b   Fernandez, C ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; DEXTRAN; DEXTRAN B512; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; SERUM ALBUMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONJUGATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNIZATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY IMMUNE RESPONSE; SPLEEN; THYMUS;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, T-INDEPENDENT; CHOLERA TOXIN; DEXTRANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPLEEN;

EID: 0031732125     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1998.00612.x     Document Type: Article

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