Peter A. Bretscher

A Theory of Self-Nonself Discrimination

Peter A. Bretscher, Melvin Cohn · Science · 1970 · 1.7K citations

Life Sciences, Immunology, Adaptive Immunity +11

Establishment of Stable, Cell-Mediated Immunity that Makes "Susceptible" Mice Resistant to <i>Leishmania major</i>

Peter A. Bretscher, Guojian Wei, Juthika N. Menon et al. · Science · 1992 · 501 citations

Veterinary Medicine, Immunology, Infectious Diseases +17

A two-step, two-signal model for the primary activation of precursor helper T cells

Peter A. Bretscher · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1999 · 382 citations

Life Sciences, Developmental Biology, Immunology +14

A Strategy for Prophylactic Vaccination Against HIV

Jonas Salk, Peter A. Bretscher, Peter L. Salk et al. · Science · 1993 · 200 citations

Veterinary Medicine, Immunology, Infectious Diseases +12

Mycobacterial Dose Defines the Th1/Th2 Nature of the Immune Response Independently of Whether Immunization Is Administered by the Intravenous, Subcutaneous, or Intradermal Route

Carl A. Power, Guojian Wei, Peter A. Bretscher · Infection and Immunity · 1998 · 186 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Immunology, Microbiology +16