DNA vaccination breaks tolerance for a neo-self antigen in liver: A transgenic murine model of autoimmune hepatitis

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 169, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 4889-4896

  Djilali Saiah, Idriss ^a   Lapierre, Pascal ^a   Vittozi, Susana ^a   Alvarez, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; DNA VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; INTERLEUKIN 12; PLASMID DNA; SECRETORY PROTEIN; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LIVER INJURY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TARGET CELL; TH1 CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VACCINATION;

EID: 0036839576     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.9.4889     Document Type: Article

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