Genetic control of natural antibody repertoires: I. IgH, MHC and TCRβ loci

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1104-1115

  Vasconcellos, Rita ^a   Nobrega, Alberto ^b   Haury, Matthias ^a   Viale, Anne Claire ^a   Coutinho, Antonio ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Congenic mice; Genetic control; IgM; Natural antibody; Quantitative immunoblot technique

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HAPLOTYPE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HAPLOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LIVER; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0031905819     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199803)28:03<1104::AID-IMMU1104>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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