Development and Use of Multimeric Major Histocompatibility Complex Molecules
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Development and use of multimeric major histocompatibility complex molecules.
Enumeration and analysis of antigen-specific T cells play a central role in cellular immunology. While many methodologies have been established for the analysis of humoral responses, until recently the direct analysis of antigen-specific T-cell responses was extremely difficult. Difficulty in analyzing T cells was partially due to the fact that T lymphocytes recognize cell surface peptide-major...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1556-6811,1556-679X
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.9.2.216-220.2002