Expression of the autoimmune Fcgr2b NZW allele fails to be upregulated in germinal center B cells and is associated with increased IgG production

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 604-612

  Rahman, Z S M ^a   Niu, H ^b   Perry, D ^b   Wakeland, E ^c   Manser, T ^a   Morel, L ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FC RECEPTOR; FC RECEPTOR IIB; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONGENIC STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; UPREGULATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; DENDRITIC CELLS, FOLLICULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MICE; MICE, CONGENIC; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PLASMA CELLS; RECEPTORS, IGG; UP-REGULATION;

MURINAE;

EID: 35548937869     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: 14765470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gene.6364423     Document Type: Article

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