Somatic mutation leads to efficient affinity maturation when centrocytes recycle back to centroblasts

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 5155-5162

  Oprea, Mihaela ^a,b   Perelson, Alan S ^c  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; MUTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION;

EID: 0031154831     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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