The heavy chain variable segment gene repertoire in chronic Chagas' heart disease

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 183, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 8015-8025

  Grippo, Vanina ^a   Mahler, Evelyn ^a   Elias, Fernando E ^b   Cauerhff, Ana ^a   Gómez, Karina A ^a   Tentori, Maria C ^c   Ruiz, Aurora ^c   Vigliano, Carlos A ^d   Laguens, Ruben P ^d   Berek, Claudia ^b   Levin, Mariano J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b DEUTSCHES RHEUMA FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM   (Germany)

^c HOSPITAL JUAN A FERNÁNDEZ   (Argentina)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN FAVALORO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY; RNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW; CELL CLONING; CELL EXPANSION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTROPORATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEAVY CHAIN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MICRODISSECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 76249096565     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0802375     Document Type: Article

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