The who, how and where of antigen presentation to B cells

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-27

  Batista, Facundo D ^a   Harwood, Naomi E ^a  

^a THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; DENDRITIC CELL; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MACROPHAGE; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; ANTIGENS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; DENDRITIC CELLS, FOLLICULAR; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGICAL SYNAPSES; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOID TISSUE; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; RECEPTORS, COMPLEMENT; SPLEEN;

EID: 58149097584     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri2454     Document Type: Review

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