Valency or wählency: Is the epitope diversity of the B-cell response regulated or chemically determined?

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 507-511

  Mitchell, Andrew J ^a   Edwards, Michael R ^a   Collins, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affinity; Antibody; Antigen valency; Fc receptors

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; EPITOPE; FC RECEPTOR;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIGENS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; EPITOPES; HUMANS;

EID: 0035570946     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1711.2001.01021.x     Document Type: Article

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