Within germinal centers, isotype switching of immunoglobulin genes occurs after the onset of somatic mutation

Immunity

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 241-250

  Liu, Yong Jun ^a   Malisan, Florence ^a   De Bouteiller, Odette ^a   Guret, Christiane ^a   Lebecque, Serge ^a   Banchereau, Jacques ^a   Mills, Frederick C ^b   Max, Edward E ^b   Martinez Valdez, Héctor ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN D;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; DNA SEQUENCE; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MEMORY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; TONSIL CELL;

EID: 0029933507     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80432-X     Document Type: Article

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