Immune responses following neonatal DNA vaccination are long-lived, abundant, and qualitatively similar to those induced by conventional immunization

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2620-2627

  Hassett, Daniel E ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a   Slifka, Mark ^a   Whitton, J Lindsay ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; DNA VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; INFECTION PREVENTION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERFERON TYPE II; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; QUALITY CONTROL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TIME FACTORS; VACCINES, DNA; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 0034005944     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.6.2620-2627.2000     Document Type: Article

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