Antibodies in a heavy chain knock-in mouse exhibit characteristics of early heavy chain rearrangement

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 452-461

  Yunk, Lenka ^a   Meng, Wenzhao ^a   Cohen, Philip L ^b   Eisenberg, Robert A ^a   Prak, Eline T Luning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; RNA; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEAVY CHAIN; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; STEM CELL; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; STEM CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 68949108184     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0804060     Document Type: Article

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