Oligoclonal development of B cells bearing discrete Ig chains in chicken single germinal centers

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 4232-4241

  Arakawa, Hiroshi ^a   Kuma, Kei Ichi ^a   Yasuda, Masahiro ^b   Furusawa, Shuichi ^b   Ekino, Shigeo ^c   Yamagishi, Hideo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHICKEN; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINEAGE; CHICKENS; CLONE CELLS; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032080833     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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