Functional expression of the IGKV A18b gene and its idiotypic crossreactivity with the A2 variable region

Immunogenetics

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 343-344

  Reason, Donald C ^a   Lucas, Alexander H ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS REACTING ANTIBODY; GENE PRODUCT; IDIOTYPIC ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSS REACTIONS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN IDIOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

EID: 0031040659     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050214     Document Type: Article

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