A recurrent clonotype in the spontaneous anti-IgG2a rheumatoid factor response of lpr/lpr mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1856-1864

  Hande, Shailaja ^a   Jacobson, Bruce A ^b   Manser, Tim ^a,c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HYBRIDOMA; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONE CELLS; FEMALE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SPLEEN;

EID: 0030027750     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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