B cell responses to a peptide epitope. II: Multiple levels of selection during maturation of primary responses

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 245-252

  Tuteja, Renu ^a   Agarwal, Anshu ^a   Vijayakrishnan, Lalitha ^a   Nayak, Bishnu P ^a   Gupta, Satish K ^b   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Rao, Kanury V S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Clonal selection; Peptide epitope; Primary response

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CLONOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOREGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0030743106     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/icb.1997.38     Document Type: Article

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