A role for antigen in the maintenance of immunological memory

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 60-65

  Gray, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; VACCINATION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; CELL ASSAY; CELL SELECTION; EFFECTOR CELL; EXPERIMENTATION; MEMORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; CELL SURVIVAL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; LYMPHOCYTES; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 0036360020     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri706     Document Type: Review

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