Molecular Analysis of Stimulatory Anti-Thyrotropin Receptor Antibodies (TSAbs) Involved in Graves' Disease Isolation and Reconstruction of Antibody Genes, and Production of Monoclonal TSAbs

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 3148-3152

  Akamizu, Takashi ^a   Matsuda, Fumihiko ^a   Okuda, Jyoji ^a   Li, Hua ^a   Kanda, Hidetoshi ^b   Watanabe, Takeshi ^c   Honjo, Tasuku ^a   Mori, Toru ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EIKEN CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; THYROID STIMULATING IMMUNOGLOBULIN; THYROTROPIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, THYROID-STIMULATING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; THYROTROPIN; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030267658     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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