Regulation of mucosal IgA responses: Lessons from primary immunodeficiencies

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1238, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 132-144

  Cerutti, Andrea ^a,b,c   Cols, Montserrat ^c   Gentile, Maurizio ^a   Cassis, Linda ^a   Barra, Carolina M ^a   He, Bing ^c   Puga, Irene ^a   Chen, Kang ^c  

^a INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

B cells; Human; IgA; Immunodeficiency; Mucosa

Indexed keywords

APRIL PROTEIN; B CELL ACTIVATING FACTOR; CD40 LIGAND; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CX3CR1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN 10; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LAMINA PROPRIA; LYMPH FOLLICLE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; NODULAR LYMPHOMATOSIS; NONHUMAN; PEYER PATCH; PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION;

EID: 82555186583     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06266.x     Document Type: Review

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