Early expression of Ig μ chain from a transgene significantly reduces the duration of the pro-B stage but does not affect the small pre-B stage

International Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1319-1328

  Arakawa, Hiroshi ^a,b   Takeda, Shunichi ^a,b  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

B cell development; Gene rearrangement; Ig; V J recombination; chain; chain

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0029776886     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/8.8.1319     Document Type: Article

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