Memory B-cell persistence is independent of persisting immunizing antigen

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6804, 2000, Pages 636-642

  Maruyama, Mitsuo ^a   Lam, Kong Peng ^a,b   Rajewsky, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; PHYCOERYTHRIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL TRANSFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; MEMORY CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, SWITCH; GENOTYPE; HAPTENS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, HEAVY-CHAIN; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTEGRASE; INTERFERON TYPE I; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROPHENOLS; PHYCOERYTHRIN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0034609775     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35036600     Document Type: Article

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