D-LysAsnProTyr tetrapeptide: A novel B-cell stimulant and stabilized bursin mimetic

Vaccine

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 1886-1892

  Gagnon, Lyne ^a   Dimarco, Marika ^a   Kirby, Robert ^a   Zacharie, Boulos ^a   Penney, Christopher L ^a  

^a Shire Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

B cell stimulant; Bursin mimetic; Immunoadjuvant

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; TETRAPEPTIDE; TRIPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ASPARAGINE; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HALF-LIFE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYSINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROLINE; SPLEEN; TYROSINE;

EID: 0034003821     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(99)00374-6     Document Type: Article

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