Nippocystatin, a cysteine protease inhibitor from Nippostrongylus brasiliensis, inhibits antigen processing and modulates antigen-specific immune response

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 7380-7386

  Dainichi, T ^a   Maekawa, Y ^a   Ishii, K ^a   Zhang, T ^a   Fawzy Nashed, B ^a   Sakai, T ^a   Takashima, M ^a   Himeno, K ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CYSTATIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; NIPPOCYSTATIN; OVALBUMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MOUSE; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CYSTATINS; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS; OVALBUMIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPLEEN; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

EID: 0035190790     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.12.7380-7386.2001     Document Type: Article

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