The kappa immunoglobulin light chain repertoire of peripheral blood B cells in patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3840-3846

  Morbach, Henner ^a   Richl, Petra ^a   Faber, Claudius ^a   Singh, Sunit K ^a   Girschick, Hermann J ^a  

^a Children's Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoantibody; Autoimmunity; B cells; Human; Immunoglobulin gene rearrangement

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RNA ISOLATION;

ADOLESCENT; ARTHRITIS, JUVENILE RHEUMATOID; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, LIGHT CHAIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 48049084744     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2008.05.011     Document Type: Article

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