The primary germinal center response in mice

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 298-302

  Cozine, Cassy L ^a   Wolniak, Kristy L ^a   Waldschmidt, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; FC RECEPTOR; KI 67 ANTIGEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; BLAST CELL; CELL MATURATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MEMORY CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; REVIEW; STEADY STATE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TH1 CELL;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DENDRITIC CELLS, FOLLICULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERMINAL CENTER; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

EID: 18844433912     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2005.04.007     Document Type: Review

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