Application of the human hepatitis B virus core antigen from transgenic tobacco plants for serological diagnosis

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 148-155

  Tsuda, Shinya ^a   Yoshioka, Keiko ^b   Tanaka, Takeshi ^c   Iwata, Akiko ^c   Yoshikawa, Akira ^c   Watanabe, Yuichiro ^d   Okada, Yoshimi ^e  

^a PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c Japanese Red Cross Society   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EVALUATION STUDIES; GENETIC VECTORS; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS VIRUSES; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031980924     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000030923     Document Type: Article

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