Article
Increased negative selection impairs neonatal B cell repertoire but does not directly lead to generation of disease-associated IgM auto-antibodies.
International immunology - 1 May 2006
Cassady-Cain Robin L, Kaushik Azad K
Abstract excerpt
To determine if increased negative B cell selection, due to lowered signaling threshold of responsiveness to a ligand as a result of SHP-1 deficiency, during ontogeny leads to the origin of disease-associated IgM auto-antibodies (AAbs), 47 V(H)J558+ VDJCmu rearrangements from SHP-1-deficient viable motheaten (me(v)/me(v)) and 24 J558+ VDJCmu rearrangements from normal me(v)/+ neonatal (<24 h post-birth) B cells...
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- Animals
- Autoantibodies
- B-Lymphocytes
- Data Interpretation, Statistical
- Gene Library
- Genotype
