Totally synthetic peptide-based vaccines that target dendritic cells and induce potent antibody or CTL responses

International Congress Series

Volumn 1289, Issue , 2006, Pages 311-315

  Jackson, David C ^a   Chua, Brendon Y ^a   Zeng, Weiguang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dendritic cell; Epitope based vaccine; Self adjuvanting vaccine; Synthetic peptide based vaccine

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645932930     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ics.2005.11.011     Document Type: Article

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