Receptor editing in lymphocyte development and central tolerance

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 728-740

  Nemazee, David ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LYMPHOCYTES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN;

EID: 33748992038     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1939     Document Type: Review

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