Repertoire shift occurs during the memory maintenance phase of the immune responses and is not affinity-driven

Scandinavian Journal of Immunology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 01-06

  Andersson, K ^a   Wrammert, J ^a   Leanderson, Tomas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAPTEN; OXAZOLONE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYBRIDOMA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0032952261     PISSN: 03009475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3083.1999.00496.x     Document Type: Article

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