A rapid and quantitative method for the evaluation of V gene usage, specificities and the clonal size of B cell repertoires

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 376, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 143-149

  Vale, A M ^a,b   Foote, J B ^c   Granato, A ^b   Zhuang, Y ^a   Pereira, R M S ^b   Lopes, U G ^b   Bellio, M ^b   Burrows, P D ^c,d   Schroeder, H W ^a,c,d   Nobrega, A ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody specificity; B cell repertoire; Clonal size; Immunoglobulin genes

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CLONE CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84856524060     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: 18727905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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