Biased VH4 gene segment repertoire in the human tonsil

Chemical Immunology

Volumn 67, Issue , 1997, Pages 45-57

  Pascual, Virginia ^a,d   Wilson, Patrick ^a   Liu, Yong Jun ^b   Banchereau, Jacques ^c   Capra, J Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Baylor Institute for Immunology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC MUTATION; TONSIL;

EID: 0030924319     PISSN: 10150145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000058677     Document Type: Review

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