Insights into the control of immunoglobulin class switch recombination from analysis of targeted mice

Research in Immunology

Volumn 148, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 460-463

  Lorenz, M G O ^a,b   Radbruch, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN SUBCLASS; INTERLEUKIN 4; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SWITCHING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0031454246     PISSN: 09232494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2494(97)82671-5     Document Type: Article

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