The germinal center reaction

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 898-907

  Gatto, Dominique ^a   Brink, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affinity maturation; Antibody response; B cell differentiation; B cell migration; Germinal center; Somatic hypermutation

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; AUTOANTIBODY; CD40 ANTIGEN; CD40 LIGAND; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR5; CXCL13 CHEMOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 4; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 3BETA; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; DENDRITIC CELL; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; GENE MUTATION; GERMINAL CENTER; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEMORY CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC MUTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 78049456523     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2010.09.007     Document Type: Review

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