Molecular programming of B cell memory

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 24-34

  McHeyzer Williams, Michael ^a   Okitsu, Shinji ^a   Wang, Nathaniel ^a   McHeyzer Williams, Louise ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; ANTIGEN; B CELL ACTIVATING FACTOR; B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; STAT1 PROTEIN; STROMAL INTERACTION MOLECULE 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX5;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CLONE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL EXPANSION; CELL LINE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLONE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; GERMINAL CENTER; GERMINAL VESICLE; HELPER CELL; MEMORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 84555173651     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri3128     Document Type: Review

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