Surrogate light chain in B cell development

Advances in Immunology

Volumn 63, Issue , 1996, Pages 1-41

  Karasuyama, Hajime ^a   Rolink, Antonius ^b   Melchers, Fritz ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMOSOME 16; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0029837933     PISSN: 00652776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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