Identification of paramyosin as a binding protein for calgranulin C in experimental helminthic keratitis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2677-2684

  Akpek, Esen K ^a   Liu, Sammy H ^a   Thompson, Robert ^a   Gottsch, John D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CALGRANULIN; PARAMYOSIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; HELMINTHIASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNIZATION; KERATITIS; MICROFILARIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; RAT; SPLEEN CELL;

ANIMALS; BRUGIA MALAYI; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EYE INFECTIONS, PARASITIC; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNIZATION; KERATITIS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; S100 PROTEINS; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 0036319684     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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