Immunological behavior of enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) as a minor histocomaptibility antigen with a special reference to skin isograft and specific regulation of local graft-versus-host reaction (GvHR)

Immunology Letters

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-113

  Pan, Xuan Chao ^a,b   Deng, Ying Bing ^a   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a   Okabe, Masaru ^c   Ochiya, Takahiro ^d   Sugiura, Wataru ^e   Kitazawa, Yuhsuke ^b   Fuji, Naoko ^b   Li, Xiao Kang ^b   Miyamoto, Megumu ^b   Kimura, Hiromitsu ^b  

^a University of Tokyo   (Japan)

^b Natl Childrens Med Res Ctr   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyctotoxic assay in vivo vitro; Enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP); Graft versus host reaction (GvHR); Immunogenicity; Skin transplantation

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HYBRID; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; ISOGRAFT; LYMPHOCYTOTOXICITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSGENIC RAT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VS HOST REACTION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MINOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS; RATS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, ISOGENEIC;

EID: 67349215735     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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