Two stages of increased IgA transfer during lactation in the marsupial, Trichosurus vulpecula (brushtail possum)

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 6009-6015

  Adamski, Frances M ^a   Demmer, Jerome ^a  

^a RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST EPITHELIUM; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; LACTATION; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLOSTRUM; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPOSSUMS; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, POLYMERIC IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0345379314     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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