Immunoglobulin switch transcript production in vivo related to the site and time of antigen-specific B cell activation

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2303-2312

  Toellner, Kai Michael ^a   Gulbranson Judge, Adam ^a   Taylor, Dale R ^a   Sze, Daniel Man Yuen ^a   MacLennan, Ian C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; GENE SWITCHING; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIGENS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CHICKENS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLOBULINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTRONS; KINETICS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMA CELLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029971182     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.183.5.2303     Document Type: Article

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