Nasal administration of synthetic acetylcholine receptor T epitopes affects the immune response to the acetylcholine receptor and prevents experimental myasthenia gravis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 841, Issue , 1998, Pages 560-564

  Karachunski, Peter I ^b   Ostlie, Norma S ^b   Okita, David K ^b   Conti Fine, Bianca M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; EPITOPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NONHUMAN; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031879775     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10983.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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