Rheumatoid factor isotype switch and somatic mutation variants within rheumatoid arthritis synovium

Immunology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 123-136

  Williams, D G ^a   Moyes, S P ^b   Mageed, R A ^b  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLONAL ANERGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SWITCHING; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOMATIC MUTATION; SYNOVIUM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 0032882912     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1999.00841.x     Document Type: Article

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