Clonal focusing of epitope-specific CD8+ T lymphocytes in rhesus monkeys following vaccination and simian-human immunodeficiency virus challenge

Journal of Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 805-816

  Sen, Pritha ^a   Charini, William A ^a   Subbramanian, Ramu A ^a,c   Manuel, Edwin R ^a   Kuroda, Marcelo J ^a,d   Autissier, Patrick A ^a   Letvin, Norman L ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; EPITOPE; GAG PROTEIN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE; PLASMID DNA; POL PROTEIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLONOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITOPE MAPPING; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; VACCINATION; VACCINE PRODUCTION; VIRUS LOAD;

AIDS VACCINES; ANIMALS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR BETA; HIV; MACACA MULATTA; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MACACA MULATTA; SIMIAN-HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 37849034873     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01038-07     Document Type: Article

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