Xenoantibodies to pig endothelium are expressed in germline configuration and share a conserved immunoglobulin V(H) gene structure with antibodies to common infectious agents

Transplantation

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1515-1519

  Kearns Jonker, Mary ^a   Fraiman, Mark ^a   Chu, W ^a   Gochi, E ^a   Michel, Jacques ^a   Wu, Guo Du ^a   Cramer, Donald V ^a,b  

^a ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b National Institute of Transplantation Los Angeles   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GERM LINE; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SWINE; XENOGRAFT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, HETEROPHILE; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; SWINE;

EID: 0032526207     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199806150-00023     Document Type: Article

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