Determining germinal centre B cell fate

Trends in Immunology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 281-288

  Zotos, Dimitra ^a,b   Tarlinton, David M ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affinity maturation; Antibodies; Cytokines; Humoral immunity; Memory

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 4;

B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 84861688429     PISSN: 14714906     EISSN: 14714981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2012.04.003     Document Type: Review

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