Disruption of the Bcl6 gene results in an impaired germinal center formation

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 439-448

  Fukuda, Tetsuya ^a,b   Yoshida, Takehiko ^a   Okada, Seiji ^a   Hatano, Masahiko ^a   Miki, Tohru ^b   Ishibashi, Kazuki ^a   Okabe, Shinichiro ^a   Koseki, Haruhiko ^a   Hirosawa, Shinsaku ^b   Taniguchi, Masaru ^a   Miyasaka, Nobuyuki ^b   Tokuhisa, Takeshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GERMINAL CENTER; KERATINOCYTE; MEDIATOR RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, RAG-1; GERMINAL CENTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0030763072     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.186.3.439     Document Type: Article

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