Affinity maturation and class switching

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 89-92

  Wabl, Matthias ^a   Steinberg, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS;

ANTIBODY AFFINITY; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MATURATION; SHORT SURVEY; SOMATIC MUTATION;

EID: 0029883777     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-7915(96)80110-5     Document Type: Article

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