MHC-restricted antigen presentation and recognition: constraints on gene, recombinant and peptide vaccines in humans
The target of any immunization is to activate and expand lymphocyte clones with the desired recognition specificity and the necessary effector functions. In gene, recombinant and peptide vaccines, the immunogen is a single protein or a small assembly of epitopes from antigenic proteins. Since most i...
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Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
1999-01-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X1999000200008 |