The regulation of IgA class switching

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 421-434

  Cerutti, Andrea ^a  

^a Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIALOGLYCOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; RAG1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; VACCINE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; B LYMPHOCYTE; COMMENSAL; DENDRITIC CELL; ENDOCYTOSIS; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HYPER IGM SYNDROME; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; KUPFFER CELL; LAMINA PROPRIA; LYMPH FOLLICLE; MUCOSAL VACCINE; NONHUMAN; PEYER PATCH; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING;

EID: 44349195660     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri2322     Document Type: Review

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