V(H) usage and somatic hypermutation in peripheral blood B cells of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 516-527

  Huang, S C ^b   Jiang, R ^a   Hufnagle, W O ^c   Furst, D E ^d   Wilske, K R ^d   Milner, E C B ^a,b  

^a BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^d VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region; Rheumatoid arthritis; Somatic hypermutation

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOMATIC MUTATION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLOOD; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 0031595601     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1998.00580.x     Document Type: Article

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