Article
Common T-cell receptor V beta usage in oligoclonal T lymphocytes derived from cerebrospinal fluid and blood of patients with multiple sclerosis.
Annals of neurology - 1 Jan 1991
Lee S J, Wucherpfennig K W, Brod S A, Benjamin D, Weiner H L, Hafler D A
Abstract excerpt
T-cell populations were investigated in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with multiple sclerosis and other neurological diseases. Individual T cells were directly cloned from the cerebrospinal fluid and blood before in vitro expansion, and their clonotypes were compared by Southern blot analysis of the rearrangement patterns of their T-cell receptor beta chain and gamma chain genes. This allowed the...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- Child, Preschool
- Clone Cells
- DNA Probes
- Female
- Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Gene Rearrangement, gamma-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
