Article
Dendritic cell immunization breaks cytotoxic T lymphocyte tolerance in hepatitis B virus transgenic mice.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Nov 1998
Shimizu Y, Guidotti L G, Fowler P, Chisari F V
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) transgenic mice that are immunologically tolerant to HBV-encoded Ags represent a model of chronic HBV infection suitable for the development of therapeutic immunization strategies before testing in humans. Five lineages of HBV transgenic mice were immunized with plasmid DN...
Topics
- Adoptive Transfer
- Animals
- Bone Marrow Cells
- DNA, Recombinant
- Dendritic Cells
- Hepatitis B Surface Antigens
- Hepatitis B Vaccines
- Hepatitis B e Antigens
- Hepatitis B virus
- Immune Tolerance
- Immunization
- Liver
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Phenotype
- RNA, Viral
- Spleen
