Antigen drives very low affinity B cells to become plasmacytes and enter germinal centers

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 5373-5381

  Dal Porto, Joseph M ^a   Haberman, Ann M ^b   Shlomchik, Mark J ^b   Kelsoe, Garnett ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAPTEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY-PRODUCING CELLS; ARGININE; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CHICKENS; GAMMA-GLOBULINS; GERMINAL CENTER; GLYCINE; HAPTENS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NITROPHENOLS; PLASMA CELLS; POINT MUTATION; SPLEEN;

EID: 0032533470     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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