Human tonsillar germinal center T cells are a diverse and widely disseminated population

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3729-3736

  Golby, Sarah J C ^a   Dunn Walters, Deborah K ^a   Spencer, Jo ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity; Germinal center; Human; T cell; Tonsil

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; MEMORY CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TONSIL;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMANS; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TONSIL;

EID: 0032723236     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199911)29:11<3729::AID-IMMU3729>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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