This review was supported by the General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 30870991 and 30672176), the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30230370), and the Major State National Basic Science and Development Program (No. 2005CB522603).
he major adnexal structures of the skin, the sweat glands, regulate the body temperature. There are twotypes of sweat glands in the human body, the eccrine type, which produces the NaCl-rich solution in response to he...
This study was supported by grants from Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 7093128) and Peking Union Medical College Hospital (No. 2009115).
Background Whether antibody to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) can be a diagnostic marker for multiple sclerosis (MS) is still controversial. Recent studies suggested that serum specific anti-MOG epitope...
Background Studies on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) vaccines have recently focused on targeting the conserved neutralizing epitopes 2F5 and 4E10, and hence it is important to understand the extent of m...
To the Editor: Bird flu or avian flu, caused by H5N1 virus, is a new emerging infectious disease. It is noted that this H5N1 virus jumped the species barrier and caused severe disease with high mortality in humans in...
ThisworkissupportedbygrantsfromMinistryofScienceandTechnologyofChina (No 96 A2 3 0 6 0 4),WHO/TDR (IDNo 980 2 5 5 )andNewEnglandBiolabs,Inc USA
Objective To obtain peptide mimicking epitopes of Schistosoma japonicum (S.japonicum) through screening of a phage peptide library and to test their potential for induction of protection. Methods S.japonicum infect...
This project was supported by the grants fam the Healh Administration of Shanghai(Na 98BR037); the National Natural Science Faundatian of China(Na 39870665).
To clone and express EC1 2 and EC3 4 epitopes of PVA (pemphigus vulgaris antigen, desmoglein 3) in order to diagnose pemphigus and study the relationship between epitopes of PVA and anti PVA antibody Methods RN...
Objective Four B and Th cell epitopes were selected from conservative domain of Plasmodium falciparum antigens to construct two groups of chimeric malaria DNA vaccines with different configurations and their antigeni...
Abstract Objective It has been well accepted that human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) is associated with human cervical cancer and HPV16 L1 protein could induce both humoral and cellular immune responses. The obje...