Expression and Presentation of Endogenous Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus Superantigens by Thymic and Splenic Dendritic Cells and B Cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2789-2794

  Ardavín, Carlos ^a,b   Waanders, Gary ^a   Ferrero, Isabel ^b   Anjuère, Fabienne ^a,b   Acha Orbea, Hans ^a   MacDonald, H Robson ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; SUPERANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DBA MOUSE; DENDRITIC CELL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONAL DELETION; DENDRITIC CELLS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS, MOUSE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED DBA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SPLEEN; SUPERANTIGENS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0030267471     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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