Frequent aberrant immunoglobulin gene rearrangements in Pro-B cells revealed by a bcl-xl transgene

Immunity

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 291-299

  Fang, Wei ^a   Mueller, Daniel L ^a   Pennell, Christopher A ^a   Rivard, James J ^a   Li, Yue Sheng ^b   Hardy, Richard R ^b   Schlissel, Mark S ^c   Behrens, Timothy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTO-ONCOGENES; STEM CELLS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0029924630     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80437-9     Document Type: Article

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