Immunization with a peptide of Sm B/B' results in limited epitope spreading but not autoimmune disease

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 5099-5105

  Mason, Lesley J ^a   Timothy, Linda M ^a   Isenberg, David A ^a   Kalsi, Jatinderpal K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Rheumatology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EPITOPE MAPPING; IMMUNIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RABBIT; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED MRL LPR; OLIGOPEPTIDES; RABBITS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR;

EID: 0033136733     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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