Antibody class switching

Advances in Immunology

Volumn 61, Issue , 1996, Pages 79-146

  Stavnezer, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; CD40 ANTIGEN; CYCLIC AMP; CYTOKINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 3; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EPISOME; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

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