Direct immunization of malaria DNA vaccine into the liver by gene gun protects against lethal challenge of Plasmodium berghei sporozoite

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 271, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 107-115

  Yoshida, Shigeto ^a   Kashiwamura, Shin Ichiro ^b   Hosoya, Yoshinori ^a   Luo, Enjie ^a   Matsuoka, Hiroyuki ^a   Ishii, Akira ^a   Fujimura, Akio ^a   Kobayashi, Eiji ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CSP; Cytokine; DNA vaccine; IL 12; Liver; Malaria; Nitric oxide; Plasmodium berghei

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; INTERLEUKIN 12; MALARIA VACCINE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIVER; LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROZOITE; TH1 CELL;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034728778     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.2558     Document Type: Article

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