Quantifiable analysis of human immunoglobulin heavy chain class-switch recombination to all isotypes

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 233, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 141-158

  Weckert, Heidi A ^a   Hughes, Julie A I ^a   Benson, Elizabeth M ^a   Dunn, Ian S ^a  

^a Institute for Immunology and Allergy Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antibodies; B lymphocytes; Human; Isotype switching; Molecular biology

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; TONSIL CELL;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; EVALUATION STUDIES; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN SWITCH REGION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TONSIL;

EID: 0033955087     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(99)00132-5     Document Type: Article

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