B-cell memory: Are subsets necessary?

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 785-790

  Tarlinton, David ^a  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL POPULATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; MEMORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 33749021665     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1938     Document Type: Review

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