Humoral immune responses in Cr2(-/-) mice: Enhanced affinity maturation but impaired antibody persistence

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 164, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 4522-4532

  Chen, Zhibin ^a   Koralov, Sergei B ^a   Gendelman, Mariya ^a   Carroll, Michael C ^b   Kelsoe, Garnett ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3B RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D RECEPTOR; HAPTEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034193061     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.9.4522     Document Type: Article

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