B-cell development in the amphibian Xenopus

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 175, Issue , 2000, Pages 201-213

  Du Pasquier, Louis ^a   Robert, Jacques ^b   Courtet, Michèle ^a   Mußmann, Rainer ^c  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL COUNT; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL KINETICS; CELL MATURATION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENETIC REGULATION; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LARVA; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MAMMAL; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; SOMATIC MUTATION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINEAGE; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; LARVA; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; XENOPUS;

EID: 0033936483     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-065X.2000.017501.x     Document Type: Article

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