Modeling and simulation of cancer immunoprevention vaccine

Bioinformatics

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2891-2897

  Pappalardo, Francesco ^a   Lollini, P L ^b,d   Castiglione, F ^c   Motta, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche sul Cancro 'Giorgio Prodi'   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER VACCINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PREVENTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE SIMULATION; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; LONG TERM CARE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 20844453250     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti426     Document Type: Article

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