Ordering of human bone marrow B lymphocyte precursors by single-cell polymerase chain reaction analyses of the rearrangement status of the immunoglobulin H and L chain gene loci

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 184, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2217-2229

  Ghia, Paolo ^a   Ten Boekel, Edwin ^a   Sanz, Eva ^b,c   De La Hera, Antonio ^b,c   Rolink, Antonius ^a   Melchers, Fritz ^a  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; BONE MARROW CELL; CHILD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD34; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; DNA PRIMERS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MICE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 0030442576     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.184.6.2217     Document Type: Article

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