Switching to IgG3, IgG2b, and IgA is division linked and independent, revealing a stochastic framework for describing differentiation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4707-4714

  Deenick, Elissa K ^a   Hasbold, Jhagvaral ^a   Hodgkin, Philip D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CENTENARY INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SELECTION; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0032757402     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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