The immune complex CTA1-DD/IgG adjuvant specifically targets connective tissue mast cells through FcγRIIIA and

Y Fang1, T Zhang, L Lidell

  • 11] Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Mucosal Immunobiology and Vaccine Research Center, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden [2] Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Affiliated Hospital of Guiyang Medical College, Guiyang, China.

Mucosal Immunology
|April 11, 2013
PubMed

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