Cutting edge: Lack of peripheral B cells and severe agammaglobulinemia in mice simultaneously lacking Bruton's tyrosine kinase and the B cell- specific transcriptional coactivator OBF-1

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 18-22

  Schubart, Daniel B ^a,c   Rolink, Antonius ^b   Schubart, Karin ^a   Matthias, Patrick ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c MediGene AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OBF 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033957422     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.1.18     Document Type: Article

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