Localization of splenic B cells activated for switch recombination by in situ hybridization with Iγ1 switch transcript and Rad51 probes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 4008-4015

  Peakman, Marie Claire ^a,b   Maizels, Nancy ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GAMMA-CHAINS; LYMPHOCYTE COOPERATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 0032532322     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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