In vivo ablation of surface immunoglobulin on mature B cells by inducible gene targeting results in rapid cell death

Cell

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1073-1083

  Lam, Kong Peng ^a   Kühn, Ralf ^a   Rajewsky, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DEATH; CELL MATURATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0342711256     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80373-6     Document Type: Article

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