The pre-B cell receptor and its role in proliferation and Ig heavy chain allelic exclusion

Seminars in Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 335-342

  Mårtensson, Inga Lill ^a   Rolink, Antonius ^b   Melchers, Fritz ^b   Mundt, Cornelia ^a   Licence, Steve ^a   Shimizu, Takeyuki ^c  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allelic exclusion; IgH chain; Pre BCR; Proliferation; Surrogate light chain; VpreB and 5

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ALLELIC EXCLUSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0036776756     PISSN: 10445323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1044-5323(02)00066-0     Document Type: Article

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