Developmental Regulation of the Human Antibody Repertoire

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 764, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 242-260

  SCHROEDER, HARRY W ^a,b   MORTARI, FRANK ^a,b   SHIOKAWA, SATOSHI ^a,b   KIRKHAM, PERRY M ^a,b   ELGAVISH, ROTEM A ^a,b   BERTRAND, F E ^a,b  

^a Division of Developmental and Clinical Immunology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FETUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0029555110     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1995.tb55834.x     Document Type: Article

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