B Cell receptor and antigens in CLL

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 792, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-24

  Agathangelidis, Andreas ^a   Ntoufa, Stavroula ^b,c   Stamatopoulos, Kostas ^b,c  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b G PAPANICOLAOU HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antigen; B cell receptor; Immunoglobulin; Signaling; Somatic hypermutation; VH CDR3

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CD23 ANTIGEN; CD69 ANTIGEN; CD71 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9;

ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; DISEASE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 84934440433     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8051-8_1     Document Type: Article

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