Extensive junctional diversity of Ig heavy chain rearrangements generated in the progeny of single fetal multipotent hematopoietic cells in the absence of selection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 4254-4261

  Nourrit, Françoise ^a,b   Doyen, Noëlle ^a   Kourilsky, Philippe ^a   Rougeon, François ^a   Cumano, Ana ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b French Min Rech et de la Technol

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; SELECTIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW; FETUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROLYMPHOCYTE; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

EID: 0032080898     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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