Development of the early B cell population in Xenopus

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2947-2959

  Mußmann, Rainer ^a,b   Courtet, Michèle ^a   Du Pasquier, Louis ^a  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evolution; Immunoglobulin; Ontogeny; V(H) usage; VDJ recombination

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; XENOPUS;

EID: 0031687509     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199809)28:09<2947::AID-IMMU2947>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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