B cell deletion, anergy, and receptor editing in 'knock in' mice targeted with a germline-encoded or somatically mutated anti-DNA heavy chain

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 4634-4645

  Pewzner Jung, Yael ^a   Friedmann, Dinorah ^a   Sonoda, Eiichiro ^b   Jung, Steffen ^a   Rajewsky, Klaus ^b   Eilat, Dan ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLONAL ANERGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR AFFINITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE MARROW CELLS; CLONAL ANERGY; CLONAL DELETION; DNA; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GENE TARGETING; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLEEN;

EID: 0032212186     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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