Evidence for a selected humoral immune response encoded by V(H)4 family genes in the synovial membrane of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-12

  Voswinkel, J ^a   Trumper L ^a   Carbon, G ^a   Hopf, T ^b   Pfreundschuh, M ^a   Gause, A ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KRANKENHAUS DER BARMHERZIGEN BRÜDER   (Germany)

Author keywords

B lymphocytes; Rheumatoid arthritis; Somatic mutation; Synovial inflammation; V(H) repertoire

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CD20 ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CASE REPORT; CELL CLONE; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOMATIC MUTATION; SYNOVIUM;

EID: 0029737341     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1996.d01-806.x     Document Type: Article

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