The hepatitis B virus e antigen cannot pass the murine placenta efficiently and does not induce CTL immune tolerance in H-2b mice in utero

Virology

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-53

  Reifenberg, Kurt ^a   Deutschle, Tom ^a   Wild, Jens ^a   Hanano, Ralph ^a   Gastrock Balitsch, Iris ^a   Schirmbeck, Reinhold ^a   Schlicht, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PLACENTA BARRIER; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0032579772     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1998.9033     Document Type: Article

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