Immunoglobulin transport across polarized epithelial cells

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 944-955

  Rojas, Raul ^a   Apodaca, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FC FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; BINDING SITE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TRANSCYTOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CELL POLARITY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A, SECRETORY; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LIGANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTORS, FC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0036902323     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm972     Document Type: Review

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