Conserved regions from Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilin are immunosilent and not immunosuppressive

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4138-4147

  Hansen, Johanna K ^a   Demick, Karen P ^a   Mansfield, John M ^a   Forest, Katrina T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PILIN; VACCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GASTROPODA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 34547633112     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.02015-06     Document Type: Article

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