B cells in autoimmune diseases: Insights from analyses of immunoglobulin variable (Ig V) gene usage

Autoimmunity Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 387-401

  Foreman, Angela Lee ^a   Van de Water, Judy ^a   Gougeon, Marie Lise ^b   Gershwin, M Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Antiviral Immunity Biotherapy and Vaccine Unit   (France)

Author keywords

Autoantibody; Autoimmune; CDR3; Somatic hypermutation; Spectratyping

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELIAC DISEASE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NONHUMAN; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; REVIEW; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, LIGHT CHAIN; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 34249699643     PISSN: 15689972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2006.12.005     Document Type: Review

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