Identification of immunodominant alloreactive T-cell epitopes on the Jka red blood cell protein inducing either Th1 or Th2 cytokine expression [2]

Blood

Volumn 104, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3409-3410

  Ansart Pirenne, Helene ^a   Zeliszewski, Dominique ^b   Lee, Ketty ^b   Martin Blanc, Stephanie ^b   Rouger, Philippe ^b   Noizat Pirenne, France ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA TRANSFUSION SANGUINE   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ALLOIMMUNIZATION; BINDING AFFINITY; BLOOD GROUP KIDD SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; LETTER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

EID: 8644278148     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-06-2412     Document Type: Letter

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