Will therapeutic peptides be kryptonite for superantigens?

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 378-379

  Schlievert, Patrick M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B7 ANTIGEN; CD28 ANTIGEN; EXOTOXIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 2; LYMPHOTOXIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; POLYPEPTIDE; SUPERANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONFUSION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DIARRHEA; ERYTHEMA; FATALITY; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SORE THROAT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; VOMITING;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; ENTEROTOXINS; HUMANS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUPERANTIGENS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0034117475     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/74630     Document Type: Short Survey

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