Frequency of clonally expanded T cells evaluated by PCR from a single cell

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 224, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 203-208

  Kurokawa, Manae ^a   Furukawa, Hiroshi ^b,c   Yabe, Toshio ^c   Matsui, Toshihiro ^a,b   Toda, Masaaki ^d   Hamada, Chikuma ^e   Kasukawa, Reiji ^f   Yamamoto, Kazuhiko ^b   Nishioka, Kusuki ^a   Kato, Tomohiro ^a  

^a Immunol Genetic Prog Inst M   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^d MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Rheumatoid arthritis; Single cell PCR; T cell

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONAL ANERGY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0032984077     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(99)00022-8     Document Type: Article

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