T cell-independent IgA class switch recombination is restricted to the GALT and occurs prior to manifest germinal center formation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 184, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3545-3553

  Bergqvist, Peter ^a   Stensson, Anneli ^a   Lycke, Nils Y ^a   Bemark, Mats ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD40 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR MARKER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; COLON MUCOSA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE LYMPHATIC TISSUE; LAMINA PROPRIA; LYMPH FOLLICLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEYER PATCH; PLASMA CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; ANIMAL; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUCOSA; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD40; CELL SEPARATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PEYER'S PATCHES; PLASMA CELLS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 77951639699     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0901895     Document Type: Article

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