Humoral and CD4+ T helper (Th) cell responses to the hepatitis C virus non-structural 3 (NS3) protein: NS3 primes Th1-like responses more effectively as a DNA-based immunogene than as a recombinant protein

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1299-1308

  Lazdina, U ^a   Hultgren, C ^a   Frelin, L ^a   Chen, M ^a   Lodin, K ^a   Weiland, O ^a   Leroux Roels, G ^a   Quiroga, J A ^a   Peterson, D L ^a   Milich, D R ^a   Sallberg M ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2B; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; PLASMID DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; MUSCLE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

EID: 0034994396     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-82-6-1299     Document Type: Article

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