Receptor Editing in B Cells

Advances in Immunology

Volumn , Issue 74, 2000, Pages 89-126

  Nemazee, David ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

B LYMPHOCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONAL DELETION; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; FEEDBACK; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENE TARGETING; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MAMMALS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VDJ RECOMBINASES;

EID: 0033991261     PISSN: 00652776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
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