Anergic TH1 clones specific for hepatitis B virus (HBV) core peptides are inhibitory to other HBV core-specific CD4+ T cells in vitro

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 7540-7548

  Diepolder, Helmut M ^a,b   Jung, Maria Christina ^a,b   Wierenga, Eddy ^c   Hoffmann, Robert M ^a,b   Zachoval, Reinhart ^b   Gerlach, Tilman J ^a   Scholz, Siegfried ^a   Heavner, George ^d   Riethmüller, Gert ^a   Pape, Gerd R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d CENTOCOR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CORE PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONAL ANERGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELPER CELL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 10244245004     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.11.7540-7548.1996     Document Type: Article

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