Mutation, selection, and memory in B lymphocytes of exothermic vertebrates

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 162, Issue , 1998, Pages 25-36

  Hsu, Ellen ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

AMPHIBIA; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN BINDING; B LYMPHOCYTE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; DENDRITIC CELL; FISH; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; MEMORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; REVIEW; SHARK; SOMATIC MUTATION; XENOPUS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031944925     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1998.tb01426.x     Document Type: Review

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