Demonstration of IgM antibodies of high affinity within the anti- Galα1-3Gal antibody repertoire

Transplantation

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1117-1119

  Lee, Janet ^a   Cairns, Thomas ^a   McKane, William ^a   Rashid, Mohammed ^b   George, Andrew J T ^b   Taube, David ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING KINETICS; GRAFT REJECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; DISACCHARIDES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOSORBENT TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0032573134     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199810270-00028     Document Type: Article

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