Variable kappa gene usage in swine antibodies

Medicina

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 299-302

  Perez, Carlos ^a   Wylie, Dwane ^b   Lopez, Osvaldo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody diversity; Light chain; Swine; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; VIRUS VACCINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 3Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN; SWINE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE;

EID: 0141539632     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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