Antigenic mimicry: Onchocerca volvulus antigen-specific T cells and ocular inflammation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 411-418

  McKechnie, Nicol M ^a   Gürr, Werner ^a   Yamada, Hanano ^a   Copland, David ^a   Braun, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2; NERVE PROTEIN; RETINA ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CHOROIDITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA LIMBUS; CROSS REACTION; EYE INFLAMMATION; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; IMMUNOREGULATION; IRIS; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE; UVEA;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINE; CROSS REACTIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPE MAPPING; EYE PROTEINS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; UVEITIS;

EID: 0036158123     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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