Germinal center B-cells

Autoimmunity

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 333-347

  Hamel, Keith M ^a   Liarski, Vladimir M ^a   Clark, Marcus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

autoimmune disease; Germinal centers; lymphoma; somatic hypermutation; tertiary lymphoid neogenesis

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CD150 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD40 ANTIGEN; CD40 LIGAND; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR5; CXCL13 CHEMOKINE; EPITOPE; FAS ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERFERON CONSENSUS SEQUENCE BINDING PROTEIN; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 4; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 21 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 4; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; PROTEIN BCL 6; PROTEIN MDM2; SPHINGOSINE 1 PHOSPHATE RECEPTOR; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; UNINDEXED DRUG; X BOX BINDING PROTEIN 1;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; AUTOIMMUNITY; B CELL LYMPHOMA; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CLONE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; GERMINAL CENTER; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MEMORY CELL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMA CELL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T FOLLICULAR HELPER CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; PLASMA CELLS;

EID: 84863486049     PISSN: 08916934     EISSN: 1607842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08916934.2012.665524     Document Type: Review

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