The chicken B-cell receptor complex and its role in avian B-cell development

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 175, Issue , 2000, Pages 187-200

  Sayegh, Camil E ^a   Demaries, Sandra L ^a   Pike, Kelly A ^a   Friedmann, Jennifer E ^a   Ratcliffe, Michael J H ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CD79A ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU CHAIN; LYMPHOCYTE MEMBRANE IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIRD; BURSA FABRICII; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE CONVERSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HATCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; LYMPH FOLLICLE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLYMPHOCYTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD79; AVIAN LEUKOSIS VIRUS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BURSA OF FABRICIUS; CELL LINEAGE; CHICK EMBRYO; GENE CONVERSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GENETIC VECTORS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0033937737     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-065X.2000.017507.x     Document Type: Article

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