Vaccination with DNA encoding an immunodominant myelin basic protein peptide targeted to Fc of immunoglobulin G suppresses experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 187, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1543-1548

  Lobell, Anna ^a,d   Weissert, Robert ^b   Storch, Maria K ^c   Svanholm, Cecilia ^a   De Graaf, Katrien L ^b   Lassmann, Hans ^c   Andersson, Roland ^a   Olsson, Tomas ^b   Wigzell, Hans ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FC FRAGMENT; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VACCINATION; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DNA; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; GUINEA PIGS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FC FRAGMENTS; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLASMIDS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VACCINES, DNA;

EID: 0032482187     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.187.9.1543     Document Type: Article

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