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Naked DNA: New shots for allergy?

Injection of an allergen gene into rat muscle prevents specific IgE production and asthmatic reactions (pages 540–544).

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Moffatt, M., Cookson, W. Naked DNA: New shots for allergy?. Nat Med 2, 515–516 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0596-515

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