Quantal and graded stimulation of B lymphocytes as alternative strategies for regulating adaptive immune responses

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hawkins, E D ^a,b,c   Turner, M L ^a,b,d   Wellard, C J ^a,b   Zhou, J H S ^a,b   Dowling, M R ^a,b   Hodgkin, P D ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD40 ANTIGEN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9;

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; MEMORY; SIGNALING; VERTEBRATE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOREGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD40; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 9;

EID: 84884156788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3406     Document Type: Article

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