Quantitative analysis of T-cell receptor β variable-gene usage in cutaneous late-phase reactions: Implications for T-lymphocyte recruitment in cutaneous inflammation

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 85-88

  Lessin, Stuart R ^a   Benoit, Bernice M ^a   Guoqing, L I ^a   Moskovitz, Ann ^a   Zweiman, Burton ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GRASS POLLEN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN INFLAMMATION; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

EID: 0032899872     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.6.1.85-88.1999     Document Type: Article

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