Cutting edge: Senescent BALB/c mice exhibit decreased expression of λ5 surrogate light chains and reduced development within the pre-B cell compartment

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 4472-4475

  Sherwood, Erin M ^a   Blomberg, Bonnie B ^a   Xu, Wei ^a   Warner, Cynthia A ^a   Riley, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 7; LEUKOSIALIN; LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLYMPHOCYTE; SENESCENCE; AGING; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BONE MARROW; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMATOPOIESIS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM;

AGING; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BONE MARROW; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEMATOPOIESIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA-CHAINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C;

EID: 0032209521     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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