Production of a recombinant form of early pregnancy factor that can prolong allogeneic skin graft survival time in rats

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 603-607

  Morton, H ^a   Mckay, D A ^a   Murphy, R M ^a   Somodevilla Torres, M J ^a   Swanson, C E ^a   Cassady, A I ^a   Summers, K M ^a   Cavanagh, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chaperonin 10; Early pregnancy factor; Local immunosuppression; Recombinant protein; Rosette inhibition test; Skin graft

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CHAPERONIN; EARLY PREGNANCY FACTOR; PLASMID VECTOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ALLOGRAFT; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA HALF LIFE; RAT; ROSETTE TEST; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PEPTIDES; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; ROSETTE FORMATION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SUPPRESSOR FACTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033671468     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1711.2000.00951.x     Document Type: Article

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