Repertoire selection by pre-B-cell receptors, and B-cell receptors, and genetic control of B-cell development from immature to mature B cells

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 175, Issue , 2000, Pages 33-46

  Melchers, Fritz ^a   Ten Boekel, Edwin ^a   Seidl, Thomas ^a   Kong, Xian Chu ^a   Yamagami, Tamotsu ^a   Onishi, Kazuo ^a   Shimizu, Takeyuki ^a   Rolink, Antonius G ^a   Andersson, Jan ^a  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU CHAIN; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; BONE MARROW; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC REGULATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SPLEEN; STEM CELL;

ALLELES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, LIGHT CHAIN; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LIGANDS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL;

EID: 0033948368     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-065X.2000.017510.x     Document Type: Article

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