The SCID but not the RAG-2 gene product is required for Sμ-Sε heavy chain class switching

Immunity

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 319-330

  Rolink, Antonius ^a   Melchers, Fritz ^a   Andersson, Jan ^a  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD19 ANTIGEN; CD23 ANTIGEN; CD40 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

EID: 0030273141     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80258-7     Document Type: Article

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