Construction of vectors expressing bioactive heterodimeric and single-chain murine interleukin-12 for gene therapy

Human Gene Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 457-465

  Lee, Yueh Lun ^a   Tao, M I Hua ^c   Chow, Yen Hung ^c   Chiang, Bor Luen ^a,b  

^a Graduate Institute of Microbiology   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA VACCINE; HYBRID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; INTERLEUKIN 12; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CLONING VECTOR; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; HELPER CELL; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION;

EID: 0032032755     PISSN: 10430342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hum.1998.9.4-457     Document Type: Article

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