What are the commonalities governing the behavior of humoral immune recognitive repertoires?

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 19-42

  Cohn, Melvin ^a,b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Diversification mechanisms; Effector mechanisms; Humoral immune repertoires; Pathway of evolution; Self Nonself discrimination; Somatic selection; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; EPITOPE MAPPING; EVOLUTION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGE DISPLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REVIEW; SHARK; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 26044481694     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2005.06.015     Document Type: Article

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