Expression and purification of a Plasmodium vivax antigen - PvTARAg55 tryptophan- and alanine-rich antigen and its immunological responses in human subjects

Vaccine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 96-107

  Siddiqui, Asim A ^a   Singh, Neeru ^b   Sharma, Yagya D ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Cytokine production; Humoral and cellular immune response; Malaria vaccine

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; MALARIA VACCINE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX ANTIGEN; TRYPTOPHAN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN PURIFICATION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM YOELII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CYTOKINES; EXONS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALARIA VACCINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; TRYPTOPHAN; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 36749090145     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.10.042     Document Type: Article

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