B Cell Responses to a Peptide Epitope: III. Differential T Helper Cell Thresholds in Recruitment of B Cell Fine Specificities

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1077-1085

  Agarwal, Anshu ^a   Rao, Kanury V S ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HELPER CELL; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CARRIER PROTEINS; FEMALE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 0031203904     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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