Fate Determination of Mature Autoreactive B Cells

Advances in Immunology

Volumn 118, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-36

  Zou, Yong Rui ^a   Diamond, Betty ^a  

^a FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation induced cytidine deaminase; Anergy; Autoimmunity; B cell signaling; Clonal deletion; Follicular dendritic cells; Follicular T helper cells; Germinal center; RAG expression; Receptor editing

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; B CELL ACTIVATING FACTOR; B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD22 ANTIGEN; CD40 LIGAND; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR5; FAS ANTIGEN; FC RECEPTOR IIB; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; NON RECEPTOR PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE 22; PROTEIN BCL 6; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE SHP 1; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; BONE MARROW; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DENDRITIC CELL; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MACROPHAGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; VDJ EXON;

EID: 84878063137     PISSN: 00652776     EISSN: 15578445     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407708-9.00001-7     Document Type: Chapter

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