A recombinant luteinising-hormone-releasing-hormone immunogen bioeffective in causing prostatic atrophy

Vaccine

Volumn 22, Issue 27-28, 2004, Pages 3713-3721

  Talwar, G P ^a   Raina, Komal ^a,c   Gupta, Jagdish C ^a   Ray, Ruma ^b   Wadhwa, S ^b   Ali, Mushir M ^c  

^a Talwar Research Foundation   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

2LHRH multimers; T non B peptide carriers; Target specificity

Indexed keywords

CANCER VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA TOXOID; DRUG CARRIER; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN ANTIBODY; PEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT VACCINE; TESTOSTERONE; TETANUS TOXOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; RAT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER VACCINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 3543132219     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2004.03.014     Document Type: Article

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