Responses against a subdominant CD8+ T cell epitope protect against immunopathology caused by a dominant epitope

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 185, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4673-4680

  Ruckwardt, Tracy J ^a   Luongo, Cindy ^a   Malloy, Allison M W ^a   Liu, Jie ^a   Chen, Man ^a   Collins, Peter L ^a   Graham, Barney S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GAMMA INTERFERON; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; IMMUNOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES;

EID: 78049498836     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1001606     Document Type: Article

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