Sequence and transcription of Qa-2-encoding genes in mouse lymphocytes and blastocysts

Immunogenetics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 97-107

  Cai, Wenyi ^a   Cao, Wei ^a   Wu, Lizi ^a   Exley, Ginger E ^a   Waneck, Gerald L ^b   Karger, Barry L ^a   Warner, Carol M ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FETAL ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYST; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES; GENES, MHC CLASS I; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029803623     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050177     Document Type: Article

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