Unrestricted usage of immunoglobulin heavy chain genes in B cells infiltrating the wall of atherosclerotic abdominal aortic aneurysms

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-71

  Walton, Lesley J ^a   Powell, Janet T ^a   Parums, Dinah V ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; B cell clonality; Inflammation; VDJ rearrangement

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0030731351     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(97)00152-4     Document Type: Article

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