Identification of a nephritogenic immunodominant B and T cell epitope in experimental autoimmune glomerulonephritis

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 311-319

  Reynolds, J ^a   Haxby, J ^a   Juggapah, J K ^a   Evans, D J ^a   Pusey, C D ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti GBM antibodies; B cell epitope; GBM; Immunodominant peptides; T cell epitope

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; NEPHRITOGENIC ANTIGEN;

ALBUMINURIA; ALLERGIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FOCAL GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

ALBUMINURIA; ANIMALS; ANTI-GLOMERULAR BASEMENT MEMBRANE DISEASE; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPLEEN;

EID: 58149293505     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: 13652249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2008.03833.x     Document Type: Article

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