Epitope-specific anti-hCG vaccines on a virus like particle platform

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Caldeira, Jerri ^a   Bustos, Jeremiah ^a   Peabody, Julianne ^a   Chackerian, Bryce ^a   Peabody, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COAT PROTEIN; EPITOPE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; RNA; THYROTROPIN; CAPSID PROTEIN; CONTRACEPTIVE VACCINE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; VIRUS LIKE PARTICLE VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA PHAGE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS LIKE AGENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOASSAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LEVIVIRUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ORGAN SIZE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RANDOMIZATION; UTERUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CAPSID PROTEINS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EPITOPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEVIVIRUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SIZE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; UTERUS; VACCINES, CONTRACEPTIVE; VACCINES, VIRUS-LIKE PARTICLE;

EID: 84950278588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141407     Document Type: Article

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