The tipping points in the initiation of B cell signalling: How small changes make big differences

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 767-777

  Pierce, Susan K ^a   Liu, Wanli ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN BINDING; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CARCINOGENESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 78049287668     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri2853     Document Type: Review

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