Of chimps and men-finding the path to an HCV vaccine

Hepatology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1472-1474

  Diepolder, Helmut M ^a   Gruener, Norbert H ^a   Heeney, Jonathan ^b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA INTERFERON; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HEPATITIS C VACCINE;

ANIMAL MODEL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIREMIA; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION;

EID: 0037566033     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510370634     Document Type: Note

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