Production of high affinity autoantibodies in autoimmune New Zealand Black/New Zealand White F1 mice targeted with an anti-DNA heavy chain

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 4406-4416

  Friedmann, Dinorah ^a   Yachimovich, Nurit ^a   Mostoslavsky, Gustavo ^a   Pewzner Jung, Yael ^a   Ben Yehuda, Arie ^a   Rajewsky, Klaus ^b   Eilat, Dan ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; DNA BINDING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HYBRIDOMA; IMMUNE COMPLEX NEPHRITIS; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LUPUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED NZB; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 0033561554     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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