Incomplete block of B cell development and immunoglobulin production in mice carrying the μMT mutation on the BALB/c background

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3463-3471

  Hasan, Milena ^a   Polic, Bojan ^a,b   Bralic, Marina ^a   Jonjic, Stipan ^a   Rajewsky, Klaus ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

chain; Immune response; Immunoglobulin; Isotype switch; Plasma cell

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CD79B ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN H; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU CHAIN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FICOLL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHOID TISSUE; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; TRINITROBENZENES;

EID: 0036909640     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200212)32:12<3463::AID-IMMU3463>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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