B lymphocytes may escape tolerance by revising their antigen receptors

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 1165-1173

  Radic, Marko Z ^a   Erikson, Jan ^b   Litwin, Samuel ^c   Weigert, Martin ^c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA ANTIBODY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; DNA BINDING; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC SELECTION; HYBRIDOMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0027532192     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.177.4.1165     Document Type: Article

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