DNA immunization with Plasmodium falciparum serine repeat antigen: Regulation of humoral immune response by coinoculation of cytokine expression plasmid

Parasitology International

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-33

  Sakai, Tohru ^a   Horii, Toshihiro ^b   Hisaeda, Hajime ^a   Zhang, Manxin ^a   Ishii, Kazunari ^a   Nakano, Yoko ^a   Maekawa, Yoichi ^a   Izumi, Keisuke ^a   Nitta, Yoshio ^c   Miyazaki, Jun ichi ^c   Himeno, Kunisuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytokine expression plasmid; DNA immunization; Gene gun; Plasmodium falciparum; Serine repeat antigen

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; INTERLEUKIN 12; PLASMID DNA; SERINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE GUN; GENE TRANSFER; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INOCULATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BIOLISTICS; CYTOKINES; MALARIA VACCINES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLASMIDS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; VACCINATION; VACCINES, DNA;

EID: 0033103125     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5769(98)00036-1     Document Type: Article

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