DNA vaccination against HuD antigen elicits antitumor activity in a small-cell lung cancer murine model

American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-43

  Ohwada, Akihiko ^a   Nagaoka, Isao ^a   Takahashi, Fumiyuki ^a   Tominaga, Shigeru ^a   Fukuchi, Yoshinosuke ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MURINAE;

CANCER VACCINE; DNA VACCINE; ELAVL4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HU ANTIGEN; NERVE PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG TUMOR; MOUSE; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; SPLEEN; TIME;

3T3 CELLS; ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; CANCER VACCINES; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CELL DIVISION; FEMALE; HU PARANEOPLASTIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ANTIGENS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VACCINES, DNA;

EID: 0033163136     PISSN: 10441549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1165/ajrcmb.21.1.3625     Document Type: Article

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