Caprine T-cell receptor variable β-chain (TCRVβ) repertoire analysis and potential applications in cowdriosis immune response studies

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 849, Issue , 1998, Pages 321-326

  Obexer Ruff, G ^a,c   Fluri, A ^a   Hein, W ^b   Lazary, S ^a   Peterhans, E ^a   Bertoni, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c Institute of Animal Breeding   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; EHRLICHIA; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GOAT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; CAPRA; CAPRA HIRCUS; EHRLICHIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0031824209     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb11065.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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