Elimination of luteinizing hormone cross-reactive epitopes from human chorionic gonadotropin

Vaccine

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 2053-2059

  Porakishvili, Nino ^a,b   Chiesa, Marta Dalla ^a   Chikadze, Nino ^b   Martensen, Pia ^c   Justesen, Just ^c   Lund, Torben ^a   Delves, Peter J ^a   Roitt, Ivan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Epitope; Human chorionic gonadotropin; Immunocontraception; Luteinizing hormone

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CONTRACEPTIVE VACCINE; CROSS REACTING ANTIBODY; CROSS REACTING ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; FEMALE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; CROSS REACTIONS; EPITOPES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RABBITS; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 0037093636     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(02)00051-8     Document Type: Article

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