Selection of anti-myelin basic protein T-cell lines in the Lewis rat: V- β 8.2 dominance and conserved complementarity-determining-region-3 motifs are dependent on serine at position 78 of myelin basic protein

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 154-164

  Mor, Felix ^a   Kantorowitz, Michael ^a   Cohen, Irun R ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Encephalomyelitis; Myelin basic protein; T lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; INTERLEUKIN-2; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0034237418     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-5728(00)00237-X     Document Type: Article

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