Characteristic cellular composition of germinal centers

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 419-428

  Imamura, Keiko ^a   Yasuda, Masahiro ^a,d   Riwar, Brigitte ^b   Inui, Seiji ^c   Ekino, Shigeo ^a,b  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chicken; Germinal center; Isotype switching; Plasma cell; T cell

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICKENS; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; PLASMA CELLS; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 63349103821     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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