Dose dependence of CTL precursor frequency induced by a DNA vaccine and correlation with protective immunity against influenza virus challenge

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 4163-4170

  Fu, Tong Ming ^a   Guan, Liming ^a   Friedman, Arthur ^a   Schofield, Timothy L ^a   Ulmer, Jeffrey B ^a,b   Liu, Margaret A ^a,b   Donnelly, John J ^a,b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; EPITOPE; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PLASMID DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MEMORY CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS IMMUNITY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NUCLEOPROTEINS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; VACCINES, DNA; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 0033120964     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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