V-region gene analysis of locally defined synovial B and plasma cells reveals selected B cell expansion and accumulation of plasma cell clones in rheumatoid arthritis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-72

  Scheel, Tobias ^a   Gursche, Angelika ^b   Zacher, Josef ^b   Berek, Claudia ^a,c  

^a DEUTSCHES RHEUMA FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM   (Germany)

^b Helios Hospital Berlin Buch   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CLONE; CELL EXPANSION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SUSPENSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; MALE; MEMORY CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RNA EXTRACTION; SYNOVIUM;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICRODISSECTION; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA CELLS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 78650784468     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.27767     Document Type: Article

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