Clonally-related immunoglobulin V(H) domains and nonrandom use of D(H) gene segments in rheumatoid arthritis synovium

Molecular Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 240-257

  Clausen, Björn E ^a,e   Bridges Jr , S Louis ^a,b,c,d   Lavelle, John C ^a   Fowler, Priscilla G ^a   Gay, Steffen ^a,b,f   Koopman, William J ^a,b,c,d   Schroeder Jr , Harry W ^a,b,c,d  

^a The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f Rheumaklinik und Institut fur Physikalische Medizin   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING SITE; DNA LIBRARY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOMATIC MUTATION; SYNOVIUM;

EID: 0031854132     PISSN: 10761551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03401921     Document Type: Article

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