Bet v 1, the major birch pollen allergen, conjugated to crystalline bacterial cell surface proteins, expands allergen-specific T cells of the T(h)1/T(h)0 phenotype in vitro by induction of IL-12

International Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1867-1874

  Jahn Schmid, Beatrice ^a,b   Siemann, Ute ^b   Zenker, Andrea ^a   Bohle, Barbara ^b   Messner, Paul ^a   Unger, Frank M ^a   Sleytr, Uwe B ^a   Scheiner, Otto ^b   Kraft, Dietrich ^b   Ebner, Christof ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adjuvant; IL 12; Immunotherapy; S layers; T(h)2; Type I allergy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY CONJUGATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; POLLEN ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLLEN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ALLERGENS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOKINES; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-12; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 6844266292     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/9.12.1867     Document Type: Article

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