Self-mimicking autoimmune domains of hepatitis C virus core antigen

Vaccine

Volumn 24, Issue 37-39, 2006, Pages 6173-6174

  Bogdanos, Dimitrios Petrou ^a   Rigopoulou, Eirini I ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Academic Liver Unit   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Cross reactivity; Liver disease; Mimicry; Vaccine; Viral hepatitis

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS VACCINE;

ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; AUTOIMMUNITY; CROSS REACTION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; LETTER; LIVER DISEASE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTOIMMUNITY; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 33747590986     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2006.05.069     Document Type: Letter

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