IgM heavy chain complementarity-determining region 3 diversity is constrained by genetic and somatic mechanisms until two months after birth

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 6060-6070

  Shiokawa, Satoshi ^a,b   Mortari, Frank ^a,b   Lima, Jose O ^a,b   Nuñez, César ^a,b   Bertrand III, Fred E ^a,c   Kirkham, Perry M ^a,c   Zhu, Shigui ^a,b   Dasanayake, Ananda P ^d   Schroeder Jr , Harry W ^a,b,c,d  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIRTH; BONE MARROW; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LIVER; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; AGING; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENTS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; READING FRAMES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0033563012     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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