Surrogate light chain expression is required to establish immunoglobulin heavy chain allelic exclusion during early B cell development

Immunity

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 133-144

  Löffert, Dirk ^a   Ehlich, Andreas ^a   Müller, Werner ^a   Rajewsky, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

EID: 0029886467     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80678-0     Document Type: Article

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