Antigen-receptor junctional diversity in growth-factor-receptor mutant mice

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 351-365

  Rodewald, Hans Reimer ^a   Haller, Corinne ^a  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

B cell and T cell receptor repertoire; c kit; Common cytokine receptor chain ( (c)); Cytokines; D(J) and V(D)J rearrangements; Growth differentiation factor receptors; JAK STAT signaling pathways; Receptor tyrosine kinase; V(H) gene usage

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032078588     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-305X(98)00013-5     Document Type: Article

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