Early B‐Cell Development in the Mouse: Insights from Mutations Introduced by Gene Targeting

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 135-153

  Loffert, Dirk ^a,b   Schaal, Stefan ^a,b   Ehlich, Andreas ^a,b   Hardy, Richard R ^a,b   Zou, Yong‐Rui ^a,b   Müller, Werner ^a,b   Rajewsky, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUKOSIALIN; SIALOGLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STEM CELL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BONE MARROW; GENE TARGETING; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MICE; MUTATION; SIALOGLYCOPROTEINS; STEM CELLS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028182885     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1994.tb00662.x     Document Type: Article

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