Molecular and genetic requirements for preferential recruitment of TCRBV8S2+ T cells in Lewis rat experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 681-690

  Weissert, Robert ^a   Svenningsson, Anders ^a   Lobell, Anna ^a,b   De Graaf, Katrien L ^a   Andersson, Roland ^b   Olsson, Tomas ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BINDING AFFINITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HAPLOTYPE; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CROSS REACTIONS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0031985168     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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