Heterogeneity of T-cell receptor usage in experimental autoimmune neuritis in the Lewis rat

Brain

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 523-535

  Stienekemeier, M ^a   Herrmann, T ^a   Kruse, N ^a   Weishaupt, A ^a   Weilbach, F X ^a   Giegerich, G ^a,c   Theofilopoulos, A ^b   Jung, S ^a   Gold, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibodies; EAN therapy; Guillain Barre syndrome; T cell receptors

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NEURITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL LINE; EPITOPES; FEMALE; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

EID: 0032986125     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.3.523     Document Type: Article

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