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Sequence and diversity of T-cell receptor beta-chain V and J genes of the owl monkey Aotus nancymaae.
Immunogenetics - 1 Aug 1999
Vecino W, Daubenberger C, Rodriguez R, Moreno A, Patarroyo M, Pluschke G
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The New World primate Aotus nancymaae is susceptible to infection with the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and has therefore been recommended by the World Health Organization as a model for the evaluation of malaria vaccine candidates. Recently, we have shown that Aotus TCRVA genes and TCRJA segments exhibit a high degree of similarity to human counterparts. In the present report we used reverse...
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