Somatic diversification of antibody responses

Journal of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-11

  Zheng, Biao ^a   Kelsoe, Garnett ^a   Han, Shuhua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Affinity maturation; Antibody repertoire; Germinal centers; Receptor editing; Somatic hypermutation; V(D)J recombination

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; B LYMPHOCYTE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC MUTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION;

EID: 0030046602     PISSN: 02719142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01540967     Document Type: Review

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