Attenuated liver fibrosis in the absence of B cells

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3072-3082

  Novobrantseva, Tatiana I ^a   Majeau, Gerard R ^a   Amatucci, Aldo ^a   Kogan, Sophia ^a   Brenner, Ian ^a   Casola, Stefano ^b   Shlomchik, Mark J ^c   Koteliansky, Victor ^a,d   Hochman, Paula S ^a   Ibraghimov, Alexander ^a  

^a BIOGEN   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ALNYLAM PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CD23 ANTIGEN; CD5 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; RECOMBINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FETUS LIVER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LYMPHOPENIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPLEEN;

EID: 27644501080     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI24798     Document Type: Article

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