Differential use of immunoglobulin light chain genes and B lymphocyte expansion at sites of disease in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared with circulating B lymphocytes

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 276-288

  Moyes, S P ^a   Maini, R N ^a   Mageed, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immunoglobulin genes; Rheumatoid arthritis; Synovium

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CASE REPORT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD CIRCULATION; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, LIGHT CHAIN; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ALPHA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0031925836     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1998.00642.x     Document Type: Article

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